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Thugs try to strangle a 5 year old boy
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- Such a shame
Don't need to read all of it. A very long, moving article. They tried to hang him but got bored, but kicked his dick til it was black and blue.
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Anthony, five, was throttled, beaten and kicked black and blue. Mum Terry, 32, of West Yorks, said: "He's still having nightmares."
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A STORY TO STUN EVERY PARENT
THE marks round his neck, the scratches and the bruises will heal - but "hanged" Anthony Hinchliffe is still gripped by fear.
Every night, the five-year-old only drifts into sleep when cradled in the arms of his mother. And every night he wakes in tears as the faces of his abusers loom close in his dreams.
Looking drawn and shaking as she spoke mum Terry Brown, 32, said: "He hasn't spent a night in my bed since he was at least two years old. Now he sleeps with me.
"Last night he couldn't get to sleep until 2.10am, then woke at 7am. He has horrible nightmares. This morning it was getting light but still dark. He said 'I don't like that. I don't like that...what they've done'."
It is five days since Terry's "beautiful boy" went missing from her quiet cul-de-sac.
It is alleged he was lured from his home, had a noose placed round his neck and was then dragged kicking and screaming to a wooded area known as Devil's Ditch.
There a gang of up to eight young thugs aged 11 and 12 are believed to have planned to hang him from a tree but gave up when they failed to attach the rope properly.
After being abandoned Anthony stumbled home. He was found 200 yards from his house by cousin Tracey Jones, 22, who brought him back. Terry will never forget the harrowing sight that greeted her.
She said: "Anthony was standing in front of me crying. But he was a different boy now. He just said 'Boys and girls' and lifted up his head to show the marks on his neck.
"His neck was puffed out and there were deep, bright red all marks round it as if he was bleeding - but he wasn't. His arms were scratched all over.
"He was in shock and talking mumbo-jumbo. He couldn't put his words together and wasn't making any sense. He was so upset."
Horrifically, Anthony's left eye was bloodshot from vessels which burst as he was allegedly throttled. His private parts were black and blue as if he had been repeatedly kicked.
Shuddering at the memory Terry, of Chickenley, Dewsbury, West Yorks, said: "I just looked at him and looked at Tracey. I couldn't believed what another child had done.
"I just couldn't understand. How can they hurt someone like him? He's a beautiful and lovely little chappy. My little soldier. How can a child have done this?"
Terry asked Anthony who was responsible. She said: "He said a name. I went around with him to the house. I wanted to show them what they'd done to my son.
NO-ONE was in so I came back and said to a neighbour 'Look what they've done to my boy'."
Today, Anthony is still very distant and goes deathly quiet when left alone for even a few minutes.
He is so reluctant to reveal the scars on his neck he wears a scarf to hide them from view.
Anthony was attacked on Tuesday afternoon. Terry remembers the day had started off like any other half-term day, with Anthony and sister Chloe, seven, and a couple of friends playing in the garden as she cared for baby, Michela, 18 months.
The next few hours would recall memories of the 1993 abduction and murder of Jamie Bulger, two, by two boys of 10. Struggling to compose herself, and at times tearful, Terry said: "Ant was playing outside in the back garden with his big sister and two friends. They were on the swings and I was watching over them.
"It was a sunny day and it's nice to watch over your kids when they play and are running around.
"Then I heard Michela inside wake up. She was crying. I went inside an changed her nappy. Then I thought I'd go and do some washing up.
"I must have been away from Anthony for no longer than 30 minutes. I called out to him from the house to come in about 4.20pm but he didn't answer.
"I went out to the front garden. Chloe was there but there was no sign of Anthony. I thought he must have legged it down the ginnel that runs by our house.
"He's got friends and a little girlfriend at the bottom of the street .
"So I went down there but no one had seen him. I went back home and Tracey arrived. I asked her if she had seen Anthony.
"She said 'No' and I started to panic. I went one way and she went the other. I was panicking because Anthony doesn't go far as I'm always telling him not to. He knows not to go out of my sight.
"He wouldn't go that far on his own. He's gone missing a couple of times but we always find him within minutes. You can hear him if you can't see him. He'll be playing with other little boys and girls and messing about, arguing being teased about his girlfriend.
"At this stage I was just running around. After 20 minutes I knew something was wrong. Mother's intuition or something. Tracey went into a chip shop, came out and that's where she found him."
Terry called the police and, crying down the line, told the operator her son had been attacked and was in agony from his horrific injuries.
An ambulance was called and the boy was immediately taken to hospital where he stayed overnight.
Terry was oblivious to the storm of publicity swirling outside the hospital ward as word of the arrest of five children on suspicion of attempted murder hit the news. Sitting next to her estranged partner of 11 years, Mark Hinchliffe, 36, Terry said: "I was sitting with Anthony in a ward when I saw the news.
"A woman in the ward was watching it too. Then she looked towards me and Anthony, picked up her child and left the room."
SINCE the savage assault, it has been hard for Terry to cope living in a safe house away from the prying eyes of the TV camera and dealing with a boy she at first hardly recognised.
There have been drastic changes in the way she handles motherhood. As she spoke, she nervously checked round the room while her son scampered between people's legs.
She admitted: "Now if I can't see him I get worried. I just keeping on going over it in my head. What if I'd brought Michela outside? What if I hadn't done the washing? If I hadn't left him this wouldn't have happened, would it?
"If Anthony is left alone for just a minute he goes quiet. And Chloe, who's usually playful, has gone right within herself since it happened.
"She won't go far from Anthony's side even if we're around. She just doesn't let him out of her sight."
Now Terry and Mark want justice for the cheeky son who in happier days would call everyone "matey" and give the thumbs up.
Terry - also mum of Patrick, 10, and Zoe, 12, from a previous relationship - said: "I'm angry. I just want the people who have done this brought to justice. Anthony's neck is sore and we use Calpol to sooth the pain. He had problems swallowing at first and was really thirsty and dehydrated.
"I just make sure he's not out of my sight. I'm petrified in case someone tries to do it again. "I feel responsible because I'm his mum. I'd turn back time if I could. I'd have taken Michela outside.
"Now I just hope someone can give information about what happened. I want the public to come forward with anything. Just seeing someone crossing the road with Anthony could be useful. I really hope there are witnesses."
Terry and her family now plan to move from Chickenley. She said: "I don't want Anthony to be playing around the garden and recognise a face. I don't want him going through this again. I don't want anyone to have to go through this."
Two girls and three boys aged 11 and 12 were questioned over the attack and later discharged. Last night one of the girls, aged 12, was still in custody after being rearrested. Detectives successfully applied for an extra 12 hours to interview her. Yesterday her father, who has not seen her since before the attack, begged her: "Tell the police what you know". He believes his daughter is innocent of any crime but may be shielding those who are guilty.
He said: "She may well know the names of those responsible but doesn't want to tell the police. I'm certain she wasn't responsible for this. "I'd urge her to tell detectives the truth about what happened."
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06-05-2005, 01:15 AM
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