Childminder case lends Ofsted advice

By James Tweed, Nursery World, 24 January 2002

Aregistered childminder was sentenced last week to just under four years in jail for the manslaughter of a baby in her care. Linda Bayfield, 54, from Addiscombe in south London, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to go to jail for three years and nine months for shaking to death eight-month-old Joshua Osborne in July 2000. Last month she was convicted of the manslaughter of the infant, having been initially charged with his murder.

Aregistered childminder was sentenced last week to just under four years in jail for the manslaughter of a baby in her care. Linda Bayfield, 54, from...

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