Phylesia Shirley & Kemar Brown were arrested over manslaughter after Shirley’s two-year-old son was killed. Let us learn more about the jail sentence below!
Phylesia Shirley and Kyrell Mathew are partners.
Reportedly, they are accused of killing Kyrell Matthews a two years old son of Phylesia. According to the sun, the tot was found in cardiac arrest at his home in Thornton Heath, South London, in October 2019.
In addition to that, he reportedly died from blunt force trauma caused by “forceful squeezing, punching, kicking or stamping.”
Phylesia Shirley & Kemar Brown Arrested Over Manslaughter & 13 Years Jail Sentence
Phylesia Shirley and her boyfriend Kemar Brown were arrested over manslaughter on March 4, 2022.
They killed Shirley’s two years old son Kyrell Mathew. It was reported that he had 41 rib fractures by the time he died at Croydon University Hospital on October 20, 2019, as well as internal bleeding and a 1.6in (4cm) cut to his liver.
Irrespective of both, Shirley and Brown consistently denying the murder, Brown was later found guilty to the murder of two-year-old Kyrell Mathews after subjecting him to months of beatings and taunting at a one-bedroom flat in Thornton Heath, South London.
Consequently, he has been jailed for 25 years for murdering his former girlfriend’s son after his period of sustained abuse was captured on secret mobile phone recordings. The recording was evidence of both adults hitting kyrell on multiple occasions. Brown would even abuse the child ‘almost for fun’ and treat him ‘like a punchbag in the gym’, per the source.
Meanwhile, the toddler’s mother was exculpated for murder but found guilty of manslaughter and will be jailed for 13 years.
Who are Phylesia Shirley & Kemar Brown?
Phylesia Shirley aged 24 is the mother of a toddler who was killed by her partner Kemar Brown.
She previously worked in child services at Croydon Council. On the other hand, Brown aged 28 is a convicted felon.
He has a string of prior convictions of violence. In the case of Kyrell’s murder, he claimed that the jury could not be sure if the two-year-old had been accidentally killed when the victim’s mother gave him chest compression, having been wrongly advised in a 111 call to use two hands rather than one.