Cruel mother tried to save boy’s life

A mother accused of murdering her two-year-old son made a non-emergency NHS call to say his body was floppy and his eyes were ‘rolling back’, a court heard. Phylesia Shirley, 24, and her boyfriend Kemar Brown, 28, are accused of murdering her son Kyrell Matthews at her home in Thornton Heath, south London. The toddler suffered a total of 41 rib fractures and his death was caused by very forceful squeezing or blows, jurors have heard. Shirley dialled 111 instead…