The father of a seven-year-old Birmingham girl who starved to death at her home after a series of "missed opportunities" by children's services to save her won legal aid to sue the council.
Khyra Ishaq died in May 2008 following months of starvation and cruelty at the hands of her mother and stepfather in Handsworth. When she died her father had not seen her for over a year.
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Khyra and five other children in the care of her mother Angela Gordon, 35, and her former partner Junaid Abuhamza, 31, were deprived of food and prevented from entering the fully stocked kitchen at their Handsworth home by a bolt fixed out of their reach on the door.
Last March, Mr Justice Roderick Evans sentenced Gordon to 15 years and jailed Abuhamza indefinitely for the public's protection, with a minimum term of seven and a half years, after they were convicted of manslaughter at Birmingham Crown Court.
A serious case review published four months later concluded that Khyra's death could have been prevented, and occurred after the authorities in the city "lost sight" of her.
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