Daniel Pelka: Mum 'Told School Not To Feed Boy'

By Adele Robinson, Midlands Correspondent

A mother accused of murdering her son told his school not to give him any more food, a court has heard.

Magdalena Luczak and her boyfriend Mariusz Krezolek deny killing four-year-old Daniel Pelka in March 2012.

He was allegedly starved for months during a campaign of "incomprehensible cruelty" before being beaten to death.

Prosecuting barrister Jonas Hankin QC, who has been questioning Luczak on her third day in the witness box, asked: "It was you who insisted that Daniel not be given more food at school?"

Luczak replied: "Yes, because I knew Mariusz would check his belly."

Luczak said she used to give Daniel breakfast and a packed lunch for school but that he would not eat in the evenings because Krezolek would not let him.

She said: "He didn't eat after school, and he didn't eat at the weekend, that's why he looked like that."

The court also heard how Daniel's mother would "bribe" him with chocolate to stop him telling teachers what was happening to him at home.

The prosecuting barrister asked how Luczak could "bribe him with the most precious thing of all, the food he was not being given?"

"I don't know but I did bribe him," Luczak replied.

During questioning, Luczak admitted "completely failing" Daniel and knowing that her boyfriend posed a "significant risk" to the boy in the three months before his death.

She was asked how she could "cuddle up to a man who has poured salt into your son's throat?"

"I don't know. I chose Mariusz, I should have protected my own child but I didn't," she said.

Luczak broke down in tears in the witness box as she was shown a body map portraying the injuries Daniel suffered, including 23 bruises on his body and nine on his head.

She admitted she "should have protected him" but did not, saying she would "never forgive" herself.

Mr Hankin said: "You had supplements for your nails and hair, but did not give your own child enough food to enable his bones to grow..."

She replied that she "didn't use the supplements".

The trial continues.

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