Review to be held into case of starved baby (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Review to be held into case of starved baby

8:58am Wednesday 9th May 2007 in Swindon By Gazette Reporter

A serious case review into the death of a baby who was starved to death by her parents will be held later today.

Eleven-month-old Kimberley Baker was described as looking like a famine-ravished Third World child in a court case earlier this year.

She died in April 2005 weighing just 4.6kg - the size of a six-week-old child.

Justice John Royce described photographs of Kimberley's emaciated dead body as truly shocking.

And he said it was unforgivable that Kimberley's parents, Neil and Alison Baker, of Hunsdon Close, Walcot, had put their own interests before that of their daughter.

Health visitors called at the house on numerous occasions, but could get no reply. When one finally did get in, a baby could be heard crying upstairs and the place stank of urine.

However, the visitor did not check on the child.

The baby's parents were given five-year jail sentences after admitting manslaughter.

The results of the review into Kimberley's death will be published this afternoon.