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The evil stepmum who tortured and murdered six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes never mentioned him to her cellmates, it has emerged.
Emma Tustin, 32, instead told fellow prisoners that she was due to stand trial because her husband had "neglected" the boy, according to an exclusive report from The Sunday Mirror.
She was jailed for 29 years on Friday over the murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, who suffered an "unsurvivable brain injury" when she fatally assaulted him at her home in Solihull, west mids, on June 16, 2020.
Her partner and Arthur’s father, 29-year-old Thomas Hughes, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 21 years in prison.
Details of the horrible killer's time in prison were shared with the newspaper by a woman who spent six weeks locked up with her before she was sentenced.
Elaine Pritchard, who shared a cell with Elaine at Eastwood Park prison after being recalled to jail for battery and criminal damage, told The Sunday Mirror that the only time Tustin shed a tear was for herself – when Hughes ignored her at a court hearing.
She said: “Emma hadn’t said anything about Arthur dying. She never mentioned him.”
“She always felt sorry for herself. One day she came back from a plea hearing and was upset, so I asked, ‘What’s wrong?’ “She said, ‘He didn’t look at me, Tom never looked at me’. That was the only time I saw her upset about anything.”
The former cellmate said she often heard Tustin “laugh and joke” on the phone, and that recalled her once threatening her mum that she would never see her grandchildren again unless she retracted statements made about Arthur.
Elaine only discovered Tustin's horror charges when she got hold of her case paperwork, and ended up in a fight after confronting her about the abuse.
Other inmates would later join in with what Elaine admitted were "cruel" taunts, with some reportedly lacing her food with salt after finding out that she had poisoned Oliver with it.
On Saturday night the Attorney General’s Office confirmed that the couple's sentence will be reviewed to “determine whether they were too low”. This came after a petition calling for the pair to receive whole-life orders was signed by more than 89,000 people.
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