‘Systemic failures’ led to boy’s death

A coroner said he will investigate ‘systemic’ agency failures after a five-year-old boy was beaten to death by his violent stepfather. Marvyn Iheanacho, 40, punched five-year-old child model Alex Malcolm repeatedly against a metal fence for losing a trainer in a park. He then attacked his mother when she tried to call an ambulance and calmly smoked a cigarette as he denied Alex treatment for two hours. The boy never regained consciousness and died two days later from a bleed…

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