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HEROIN addict Daniel Bishop tortured his two-year-old stepdaughter Lois over a period of six weeks before shaking her to death – and now faces a 12-year prison sentence.
Bishop, 27, formerly of Oak Terrace, Llanbradach, pleaded guilty to manslaughter, child cruelty and causing GBH with intent.
His wife Sarah Bishop, Lois’s mother, admitted child neglect and was sentenced to six years.
Flanked by security guards at Cardiff Crown Court, the pair sat silently in the dock throughout their two-and-a-half hour sentencing hearing in Courtroom One.
Daniel Bishop wore a white T-shirt, while his 29-year-old co-defendant wore a black suit.
Daniel Bishop was sentenced first and was afterwards led away in silence. Sarah Bishop burst into tears and held her head in her hands as she was sentenced.
Prosecutor John Charles Rees QC said Lois had been “systematically abused, tortured and ultimately killed” by Daniel Bishop’s cruelty and Sarah Bishop’s neglect.
Post-mortem examinations revealed she had 13 broken bones, burns and bruises – all inflicted in the final six weeks of her life.
Lois had a cigarette burn which went through her toenail and into the flesh below and a deep burn on the sole of her left foot.
The court heard such a deep burn could not have been caused by her stepping in hot water spilled from a kettle - as Daniel Bishop had initially claimed.
Instead, Mr Rees said, it had been caused by Daniel Bishop holding his stepdaughter’s foot against a 150C hob, removing it, and then applying it again.
The court heard the pair hid the toddler when Social Services visited their home on Alexander Court, Lansbury Park, Caerphilly.
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