Grandparents ‘murdered “painfully thin” boy, 2, after he became object of abuse in family’s campaign of brutality’

A COUPLE murdered their toddler grandson after he became an “object of abuse” in a campaign of brutality, a court heard.

Ethan Ives-Griffiths suffered catastrophic head injuries at the home of Michael Ives and Kerry Ives in Deeside, North Wales.

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Jurors heard the two-year-old was “painfully thin and vulnerable” at the time of his death.

Ethan had suffered a “thoroughly miserable” life and...