Good Morning Britain’s Kate Garraway ‘feels physically sick’ hearing details of murdered 6-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes

Kate Garraway was left feeling ‘sick’ after hearing the details of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ murder on today’s Good Morning Britain.

Emma Tustin, 32, was unanimously convicted at Coventry Crown Court on Thursday of killing the little boy.

Her partner and Arthur’s father, 29-year-old Thomas Hughes, was found guilty of manslaughter, after his son suffered an ‘unsurvivable brain injury’ on June 16 2020.

Discussing the tragic news on Friday’s episode, Kate said: ‘It makes me feel physically sick actually, when you hear some of the evidence.’

Co-host Ben Shephard added: The details of the case and what little Arthur went through don’t bear thinking about.’

Kate went on to say: ‘It’s absolutely devastating.’

Arthur was just six when he was killed (Picture: SWNS)

Emma Tustin has been convicted of murder and her partner Thomas Hughes has been found guilty of the manslaughter at Coventry Crown Court (Picture: PA)

Jurors, who took six hours and 15 minutes to deliver their unanimous verdicts, afterwards held a minute’s silence in Arthur’s memory.

In court, the pair had been described by prosecutors as ‘utterly ruthless, unthinking and pitiless’.

Speaking after the verdicts, Arthur’s maternal grandmother, Madeleine Halcrow, called them ‘wicked’ and ‘evil’.

She also described the couple’s behaviour, which included Tustin poisoning the youngster by force-feeding him salt-laced meals, as ‘unfathomable’.

Thomas Hughes has been found guilty of the manslaughter at Coventry Crown Court of his six-year-old son (Picture: PA)

Arthur died after sustaining an ‘unsurvivable’ head injury on 16 June 2020 (Picture: SWNS)

‘I think they are cold, calculating, systematic torturers of a defenceless little boy,’ she said. ‘They’re wicked, evil.

‘There’s no word for them, especially your own child.’

Tustin carried out the fatal assault while in sole care of Arthur at her home in Cranmore Road, Solihull, violently shaking him and repeatedly banging his head, likely against the hallway wall.

She callously took a photograph of the unconscious youngster on her mobile phone, while he lay dying in her hall, then sending the image to Hughes.

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Tustin then took 12 minutes to call 999, instead first ringing Hughes, before lying to medics and later police that Arthur ‘fell and banged his head and while on the floor banged his head another five times’.

She claimed at trial he must have thrown himself down the stairs, despite evidence he was so starved he was barely able to pick up his own bedding or stand.

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV.

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