A MAN who murdered a two-year old girl who had called him “daddy” has been sentenced to life in prison.
Grace Thorpe was left with bleeding on her brain, a broken leg, a fractured jaw, an internal tear to her bowel from punches or kicks to her abdomen, and bruises all over her body and face following the violent attack by Adam Jackson, aged 27. The attack happened shortly after Grace’s mother had left her in the care of Jackson.
Within minutes of her mother leaving the house, he attacked Grace – leaving the toddler with a catalogue of injuries that the pathologist said would have left her in, ”immediate and obvious pain”.
Upon her return, Jackson told mother, Alice Quine, that Grace had fallen out of her highchair.
At Teesside Crown Court Jackson, 27, admitted murder and was jailed for life with a minimum of 16-and-a-half years.
Judge Howard Crowson called it “a brutal, violent and painful assault” on Grace, who had called Jackson “Daddy”.
Grace was just two years old at the time of her death (Image: Family Handout•Cleveland Police)
Grace had multiple injuries, including a fractured skull and leg, and had bruises across her body, and Jackson had hit her at least seven times.
Mr Jackson did not immediately call 999, the court heard, but when he did he claimed the two-year-old had fallen from a faulty high chair.
However, a pathologist concluded the injuries were inflicted deliberately.
Grace was found in a critical condition at her home in Dale Street, in New Marske, on 10 November and she was flown to a specialist children’s unit in Newcastle, where she died the following day.
Speaking after sentencing, Alice Quine, Grace’s mother, said “I lost everything in that moment.”
She added: “My Grace was the happiest little girl who never wanted for anything, she was always content and smiling, her laugh was infectious.”
In the statement, the distraught mother added: “Grace loved and trusted Adam Jackson and he abused that in every way possible. I trusted him with my whole world and he took it away from me in a split second.”
Ms Quine also spoke of the impact the two-year-old’s death had had on Grace’s sister, saying they had shared the “most amazing bond and love for each other”.
She said: “Every birthday will be celebrated, every anniversary we will remember, every Christmas an empty chair will always be at the table because we know she will be there with us.”
Jackson will serve a minimum of 16 years in jail (Image: Getty Stock Image)
The prosecution said Jackson and Grace’s mother had been in a relationship for a year before the murder, and she had gone to work on the day of the murder.
Family and friends had initially liked him, and he moved in with her after lockdown.
But, prosecutor Nick Dry said Jackson would become bad-tempered if he did not have money for cannabis, which he used every day.
Hair samples from Grace showed she had been exposed to cannabis and cocaine, the court heard, and Ms Quine had previously asked Jackson to leave the house before they got back together.
Teeside has been left in shock at the brutal nature of the murder (Image: Getty Stock Image)
Peter Makepeace QC, defending, said Jackson, who had no previous convictions, did not intend to kill Grace, saying it had been a “spontaneous eruption of uncontrolled violence”.
Senior investigating officer, temporary Det Ch Insp Peter Carr, said Jackson tried to conceal what had happened, “even offering Grace chocolate buttons to try to appease her”.
The officer added: “He continued to lie to Grace’s family and to police to try to cover up what he had done.”
He also said: “Today’s guilty plea spares Grace’s family the pain of a lengthy trial but it does not take anything away from the fact that Adam Jackson caused the death of a young toddler who had her whole life ahead of her.
Concluding, the officer added: “Grace’s family will live with that loss every day.”
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Original Article: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1528865/teeside-news-crime-murder-daughter-jail-sentence-life
16 years, what a joke piece of shit needs to be beat to death so he’ll know what he did was wrong, eye for an eye, what ever happened to that!!!
I have to agree. I for an eye and a tooth for tooth
Hopefully someone in prison loves kids and will give him his just desserts.
In Texas, he would have been beaten to death so bad that the prison officials would have a hard time trying to figure out WHAT the bloody, broken mass in front of them was at one time…
Love Texas!!
Demwits are trying their damndest to ruin it!!!!
Let’s Go Brandon!!!!
I think he would thoroughly understand what he did about child. 16 years is not enough for killing a baby.
I hope that before those angry prisoners get to him, that they make him suffer like he made little Grace suffer. This story put my stomach in knots. I hope every single day of his life, someone will inflict severe pain on him and not kill him. This bum probably didn’t even work as you see that Grace’s Mama had to go to work that day. He is a waste of oxygen.
We need a follow up article on this POS after he’s in prison.
I want to read about this POS getting his ass beat every day in prison.
This lazy assed POS smoked dope everyday while his, gullible, dumbass girlfriend worked.
Such a loser…. must be what attracted her to him!!!!
I give that POS animal a month, tops, if he’s put in gen-pop.
Using the word “animal” to describe this human POS is an underserved insult to the four legged animals that have more sense and are better parents than a LOT of scumbag humans.
The low life that killed an innocent child because he didn’t have his pot or cocaine makes me sick to my stomach and pain in my heart. May the little child rest in peace. I hope he rots in prison. However, on second thought, he won’t be there long enough to spoil. Such a frail sentence for a child killer.
And everyone wants to make Cannabis legal , This is not a good thing. Just leads to other things. We as in America do not need these kind of drugs.
Good Luck
with that!!!
Per capita, Americans use more drugs than in any other country.
I’m not trying to be mean, but does the mom hold any responsibility? She left her innocent child with a man she knew used. Are we to believe he never showed uncontrolled anger before this one instance? I’m proud she left to work, and I’m sure her childcare options were slim
I killed this baby because I was high on cannabis. I killed my girlfriend because I ate a cannabis laced brownie. This is becoming a daily affair and our state governments do not care. To quote Justice Scalia “Where is the moral outcry?” The Supreme Court is now in a position to judge the value of human life. Let us pray that they come to the right conclusion.
In Ohio he would be beaten to death the inmates would come after they hate crimes against children and women they would absolutely torture him!
Spread the word in jail that he murdered a two year old ,a lot of those inmates may be convicted criminals but they have kids too, his ass the last about 5 minutes