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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/khyra-pair-lose-sentences-challenge.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Khyra Ishaq died in May 2008 when her body succumbed to an infection after months of starvation" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/min-khyra-pair-lose-sentences-challenge.jpg" alt="Khyra Ishaq died in May 2008 when her body succumbed to an infection after months of starvation"/></a></p>
<p>The mother and stepfather of a seven-year-old girl who starved to death have lost challenges against their sentences.</p>
<p>Angela Gordon, 36, and her former partner Junaid Abuhamza, 32, were jailed by a judge at Birmingham Crown Court in March last year for the manslaughter of Khyra Ishaq.</p>
<p>The youngster died in May 2008 when her body succumbed to an infection after months of starvation at her home in Handsworth, Birmingham.</p>
<p>Mr Justice Roderick Evans sentenced Gordon to 15 years and jailed Abuhamza indefinitely for the public&#8217;s protection, with a minimum term of seven and a half years.</p>
<p>At the Court of Appeal, the Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge and two other judges dismissed their appeals.</p>
<p>Lord Judge said: &#8220;This is a pitiful and profoundly distressing case.&#8221;</p>
<p>The trial judge branded their treatment of the child &#8220;chilling in its harshness and cruelty&#8221;.</p>
<p>Both defendants were also given concurrent sentences for child cruelty charges, which they had admitted, relating to five other children in their care and control.</p>
<p>During the trial, jurors heard that Khyra was removed from school and subjected to a punishment regime which included standing outside in the cold or in front of a fan for long periods, having cold water poured over her and being beaten with a bamboo cane.</p>
<p>She and the five other children were deprived of food and prevented from entering the fully-stocked kitchen by a bolt fixed out of their reach on the door. By the time of her death, Khyra had lost about 40% of her body weight and was so thin that her body mass index could not be measured on any available chart.</p>
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