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| Gordon and Khyra, pictured here. Kyra was beaten with a bamboo cane, forced to stand outside in her underwear for hours and had lost 40 per cent of her body weight when she died |
UK - A mother who starved her seven-year-old daughter to death has reportedly 'ballooned' to 18 stone while in prison. Angela Gordon, 36, was found guilty of manslaughter and jailed for 15 years following the death of Kyhra Ishaq, who was denied food by both her mother and stepfather. The child weighed just 2st 7lb when she died in May 2008 - despite living in a house with a well-stocked kitchen. A source told The Sun of Gordon's weight gain behind bars and called it an 'insult' to her daughter. 'She loves her food and has even moaned at the size of the portions,' a source told the newspaper. 'It's an insult to Khyra's memory. 'She's not made many friends inside and her transfer was welcomed by a lot of cons,' the source added. Khyra suffered for months at the hands of Gordon and her schizophrenic boyfriend Junaid Abuhamza - who was given an indefinite sentence for manslaughter - before her death. She was beaten with a bamboo cane, forced to stand outside in her underwear for hours and had lost 40 per cent of her body weight when she died. The seven-year-old had been reduced to scavenging bread from a neighbour's bird table because Gordon and Abuhamza kept their kitchen bolted shut in a 'behavioural code'.
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