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The crimes of wicked stepmother Emma Tustin were so harrowing that detectives investigating her case were given counselling.
While jurors at her murder trial were excused for the rest of their lives from ever having to undertake the public duty again.
But when it came to facing her fate for the torture and murder of her six-year-old stepson she refused to show her face.
It was the final act in a grotesque spectacle of self-pity – one I had the profound displeasure of witnessing first-hand.
I sat through the entirety of her horrendous trial in late 2021 – and her evil is something I will never forget.
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