The attempt to reverse the conviction of a couple who were imprisoned for keeping a “exceptionally thin” infant boy in deplorable circumstances prior to his death, with drug traces found in his milk bottle, was unsuccessful.

After he gained 100g in three days under medical care but was having trouble gaining weight at home, she became even more concerned about his diet.

In one conversation, the parents were told to give their infant more formula, but Angell said, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Sheriff Dunipace declared: “You both failed in your duty to your son despite the high level of social work intervention, and.

I have concluded that the matter which you were convicted involved a high level of culpability and involved a deliberate disregard of the welfare of your child while in a position of the greatest trust as parents.”

“The appeals of Angell and Stevenson were denied at the’second sift’ stage,” the Appeal Court affirmed.