There were missed opportunities to help two murdered County Durham toddlers in the lead-up to their deaths after their fathers raised concerns about domestic abuse, a new report has found.
Two-and-a-half-year-old Maya Chappell was shaken to death by her mother’s new partner, Michael Daymond, at her Shotton Colliery home in September 2022. Daymond is now serving a sentence for murder, and Maya’s mother Dana Carr was found guilty of child cruelty, neglect, and allowing the death of a child.
Two months after Maya’s tragic murder, Dwelaniyah Robinson, three, died in Ushaw Moor after being violently shaken by his mother Christina Robinson. She was convicted of murder, and a raft of child cruelty offences said to have taken place in the weeks leading up to Dwelaniyah’s death.