Couple 'poisoned toddler to cover up beatings and left her to die on bed'

Abigail Leatherland and Tom Curd are charged with murder, manslaughter by gross negligence, and causing or allowing the death of a child

A mother and her new boyfriend may have poisoned a one-year-old toddler in an attempt to cover up a series of beatings, a jury has heard.

Eve Leatherland, who was just 22 months old when she died in October 2017, had suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs and a split liver, prosecutors claim.