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Finley Boden: The tragic murder of a baby

Finley Boden鈥檚 murder raises questions about family courts and transparency

The parents who murdered their 10 month old baby, Finley Boden, will be sentenced on Friday. Key documents which led to a court agreeing to return Finley to his parents in 2020, who then murdered him 39 days later, have been obtained by the 麻豆社. One of the journalists that pushed for access to the court, and obtained transcripts of the case, is 麻豆社 Correspondent Sanchia Berg.

Today鈥檚 Amol Rajan then spoke to Josh MacAlister, the Chair of the Independent Review of Children鈥檚 Social Care, and to Toby Perkins, the Labour MP for Chesterfield, where Finely Boden spent his brief life. They discussed whether greater transparency is something family courts should strive towards, and what went so badly wrong in this case?

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