Child killer Emma Tustin is set to go on a parenting course in prison.
The 32-year-old is being offered tuition as part of her life sentence for killing the six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.
Tustin – who has four children of her own – forced Arthur to sleep on the floor, poisoned him with salt and banged his head as part of a catalogue of abuse that horrified the nation.
The course is intended to help her “manage certain aspects of her personality” and “deal with her way dangerous beliefs,” the Mirror reports.
“The phrase ‘too little, too late’ springs to mind,” they added. The course is run at HMP Peterborough, where Tustin, who must serve at least 29 years, is in a unit for inmates with “complex needs”.
The source explained the killer may end up serving many years more if she does not face up to her crimes.
They added: “She will be required to take relationship and parenting courses. She needs to tackle what went so catastrophically wrong with her care for Arthur. If she serves just her minimum sentence she’ll be in her 60s when released, so could form relationships that bring her into contact with children.”
Tustin, who refused to come into court to be sentenced to life with a minimum term of 29 years last week, has already mentally deteriorated in prison.
Her barrister Mary Prior QC, told the hearing at Coventry Crown Court that she had been 'subjected to bullying and threats of violence'. She also confirmed Tustin had made two attempts on her own life and would remain a high suicide risk.
Her former lover, Arthur's father Thomas Hughes, 29, was jailed for 21 years for the boy's manslaughter.
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