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The 17-month-old boy who lived in Haringey borough suffered horrific injuries as a result of being used as a "punchbag" by the men - a lodger and the 32-year-old boyfriend of the child's mother.

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A man has been convicted of involvement in the death of a 17-month-old baby who suffered more than 50 injuries after being used as a 'punchbag'.

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An Old Bailey jury had been mulling verdicts for a fifth day having heard that the child, who had been used as a "punchbag", died from a broken back and other injuries in August last year at his home in Haringey, north London.

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An Old Bailey jury heard the boy, who had been used as a "punchbag", died in August last year from a broken back - which a doctor had failed to spot - and other injuries sustained over a period of months at his home in north London.

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But after months of being used as a "punchbag" and having his curly blond hair shaved off, he became dead-eyed, hollow-cheeked and unrecognisable.

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"He was so completely subservient to you that after being treated as a human punchbag he followed you meekly out of the lift," the judge said, adding that Saud did not try to help Abdulaziz after inflicting fatal injuries and instead tried to concoct a cover story.

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Ron NoonLiverpool• Simon Jenkins is right to describe the government student fees policy as a "social mobility tax", but perhaps not quite in the way he meant You chose to be coalition arm-candy so accept it, Nick: you are a punchbag, 8 April.

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His former wife and punchbag Sheryl commented that the former England star was now much more articulate as a result of him being the living dead.

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He is the coalition clown, part lightning rod, part punchbag, but always ridiculous.

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What, however, gives Bond's play a tiny shred of hope is the extraordinary final scene in which Len, who for much of the action has been Pam's punchbag, meticulously mends a chair.

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