Murdered boy ‘was not protected’

Ryan Lovell-Hancox The couple had been caring for Ryan for a month when he died in 2008

A review has been carried out into the death of a three-year-old West Midlands boy who was murdered by a couple who were supposed to be caring for him.

Ryan Lovell-Hancox died on 24 December 2008 from a brain injury he received at the Bilston home of Christopher Taylor and Kayley Boleyn.

They were jailed for murder and child cruelty in July 2010.

Wolverhampton’s Safeguarding Children Board will release the findings of a serious case review at 0830 BST.

Ryan was inflicted with more than 70 injuries by the defendants who blamed each other for his injuries.

Ryan’s mother, Amy Hancox, who knew nothing of the abuse, had told the court during their trial that she had given Ryan to the pair to look after as she “was not coping”.

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