A woman and her then-boyfriend have been found guilty of killing her three-year-old daughter, after a court heard the child had suffered a long-running catalogue of physical abuse.
Kaylee-Jayde Priest was found dead at the flat in Solihull where she lived with her mother, Nicola, on 9 August 2020.
Kaylee-Jayde, who was described in court as a “happy child”, died from serious chest and abdominal injuries.
A jury at Birmingham crown court heard the series of historical injuries the girl had suffered, including broken ribs, lower leg fractures and a broken sternum.
Nicola Priest, 23, and her then partner, Callum Redfern, 22, blamed each other during the trial, but were in a “close sexual relationship” at the time of the killing.
Priest had rung 999, but a judge was told that Kaylee-Jayde had been “dead before the call was made”.
Both Priest and Redfern were unanimously cleared of murder but convicted of…