7-Year-Old Girl Writes “Thank You” Letter To Judge Who Jailed Her Dad For Killing Her Mum

 

A seven-year-old girl wrote a thank you letter to the judge who jailed her dad for killing her mum.

London’s High Court was told how the youngster witnessed her father stab her mother to death.

The little girl, who cannot be named, was later found covered in blood near her mum’s body after trying to intervene, and “suffered a horrendous trauma” at the “severe loss of her beloved mother”.

Mr Justice Keehan said: “(The little girl) was not only present when her mother was killed, but she suffered injuries inflicted by her father as she bravely sought to protect her mother.

“She was found by the emergency services in the same room as her mother’s dead body. (She) was covered in blood.”

“On hearing of her father’s conviction and sentence of imprisonment she wrote a ‘thank you letter’ to the judge who presided over the criminal proceedings.”

Her father was jailed for a minimum of 10 years after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, with details of the case emerging in a written analysis by a judge sitting in the High Court’s Family Division.

Mr Justice Keehan was asked by social worker to decide about the girl’s future, and he gave approval for her to be placed in long-term foster care.