PSYCHO KILLER
Killer boasts ‘I’m a psycho’ in shocking vid before she murdered Star Hobson, 1, as mum blasts family who tried to help
A KILLER boasts "I'm a psycho" in a shocking clip before she murdered her stepdaughter while her lover slammed relatives who called social services.
Frankie Smith, 20, and Savannah Brockhill, 28, abused daughter Star Hobson in her final months.
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Brockhill was today found guilty of murder, while Smith was convicted of causing or allowing the death of a child.
The couple had a "toxic" relationship leading up to the 16-month-old's brutal death on September 22 last year.
They would regularly row and break up and there were repeated reports of violence.
It comes as...
- Star Hobson's mum and her lover were convicted over the youngster's death
- A heartbreaking image shows bruises on the youngster's face
- Her family warned the authorities she would be 'another Baby P'
- Haunting videos show Star's final months before she was murdered
In a Snapchat clip filmed by Brockhill, she could be seen branding herself a "psycho" as she tells people not to message her girlfriend.
She then warns anyone listening that if they want to "keep your kneecaps", the should "stop sending them" before beaming at the camera.
A caption along the bottom reads: "I am a psycho when it comes to my girlfriend and wouldn't mind putting anyone in a chair for the rest of my life if they as much look at her wrongly.
"Keep safe, don't message my girlfriend".
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The caption was followed by a red X, knife and bomb emoji.
Star had been placed back into Smith's care months before her death after living with her great-gran Anita Smith and her partner David Fawcett.
Soon after, her worried family reported their fears she was being abused to social services but it was never followed up.
Desperate, David posted two pictures on Facebook - one showing Star with bruises and one without.
He captioned it: "From this to this in five weeks. What's happening Frankie?"
But raging Smith blocked him on social media and instead made her own post slamming the worried great-grandad.
She wrote: "When you're done being pathetic and childish with edited photos of OUR child David Fawcett get a grip, she's happy and healthy.
"Since the social workers never worked and they agreed my baby is happy, healthy and loved now try whatever else you feel you need to.
"Grow up, you will never have my child."
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Smith also lashed out at loved ones in another post in June last year, saying it is "my business" as Star's mum to "decide who is around my baby".
Little Star had been a "happy baby" while living with her great-gran Anita and David.
She had moved in with her loved ones as Smith, whose IQ places her at the bottom two per cent of the population for intelligence, was unable to look after her.
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The court was told how "very immature" Smith was helped by her family when Star was born as she often "struggled" and was "lazy and neglectful".
BABY HOPES
She then began a relationship with Brockhill in Christmas 2019 before they moved into a new flat in Keighley together in June last year.
In April last year, Star was ripped from the loving home and sent back to live with her mum and "toxic" Brockhill at their house of horrors.
Despite her problems with her daughter, Smith also expressed her wish for another child.
She posted a stock image of a pregnancy test revealing a boy was coming with the caption: "I want one."
The post was just weeks before her and Brockhill killed little Star by stomping her to death.
During a harrowing trial, jurors were told Star died in hospital from blood loss after her inferior vena cava - the largest vein in the body - was torn.
Medics said her injuries were usually only seen in car crash victims and had been caused by either "punches, kicks or stamps".
Doctors also discovered a number of "significant injuries" the baby had suffered "at different times during her short life".
This included two fractures to the right shin bone "caused by forceful twisting", a fractured skull and an old brain injury.
In total she had 15 separate injuries to her head and ten bruises to her legs, ankles, feet and toes.
CHILLING SEARCHES
Chilling footage showed Star looking badly bruised with a swollen cheek and marks to her forehead.
The crying toddler could also be seen painfully climbing up a flight of stairs while suffering from a broken shin as both women made her to walk.
In another clip, Brockhill appeared to punch Star while sitting in a car just days before her death.
Brockhill and Smith had made a number of haunting Google searches in the days before Star's death, asking: "How long can your body last without sleep?"
They also searched "how long can you sit in the cold?" and "what takes bruising and swelling down?"
During Star's final months, Smith "called her names that shouldn't be said to a child" - including "little c***".
She was made to face the wall if she misbehaved and was put in a ";choke slam" by the couple.
They would also lift Star up by her neck or throat and throw her onto a bed to "toughen her up".
'RIP HER UP'
Evil Brockhill also swung the youngster by her leg and Smith would bite her daughter's fingers as "punishment".
Sickening text exchanges between the two show the brutal punishments they used if she apparently misbehaved.
In one, Brockhill told Smith to "rip her up" and make her stand in the corner for 20 minutes after the mum sent her a photo of Star crying on a shopfloor.
Smith messaged Brockhill at one stage, saying: "Star keeps crying and I don't know why, it's proper crying. She's proper crying."
Her partner tells her to put the baby in the corner, with Smith telling her she already is.
Brockhill replies: "Good".
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Smith also regularly referred to her daughter as "it" in the chilling texts and would send pictures of Star stood in the corner facing the wall.
The couple will be sentenced at a later date.
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