Kiernan Hughes-Mason left toddler with brain damage after violent assault | Football

A former EFL footballer has been discovered responsible of kid cruelty and grievous bodily hurt after inflicting life-changing mind accidents on a toddler.

Kiernan Hughes-Mason left the two-year-old woman requiring round the clock care as a consequence of an assault that passed off in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex in January 2020.

Throughout the case the prosecution barrister referred to 1 physician’s evaluation of the kid’s accidents as corresponding to ‘a high-speed street visitors accident’ or ‘a fall from a considerable peak of a number of storeys’.

The accidents have been so extreme that the kid needed to be positioned in an induced coma and brought to Nice Ormond Avenue Hospital for additional remedy.

Docs recognized 17 totally different accidents to the sufferer’s legs, again face and chest, believed to have occurred between October 2019 and the assault in January 2020, when she was taken to hospital.

Within the days main as much as the incident, Hughes-Mason despatched a number of messages to others stating how offended caring for his companion’s two-year-old daughter made him, saying ‘she’s really getting on my nerves’, and ‘I’m gonna hit her’.

After virtually three years’ work, the Crown Prosecution service agreed to cost Hughes-Mason with inflicting grievous bodily hurt with intent and baby cruelty.

A 3-week trial at Basildon Crown Courtroom started on August 5, and on August 21, after 5 hours of deliberation, the jury discovered Hughes-Mason responsible of each prices. He will likely be sentenced on September 10.

Hughes-Mason started a 15-year taking part in profession at Millwall and later performed for the social media group Hashtag United.

The 32-year-oldhad been managing Enfield Borough earlier than being sacked following Wednesday’s conviction.

An announcement issued by membership chairman Marvin Walker on Wednesday night learn: ‘Efficient instantly, Enfield Borough FC has determined to alleviate Kiernan Mason-Hughes from his duties as supervisor.

‘Enfield Borough FC is dedicated to sustaining the very best requirements of integrity and accountability, and we consider that this motion is critical to uphold these values.

‘We recognize the understanding and continued assist of our followers and neighborhood throughout this time. No additional assertion will likely be made.’

Hashtag United – the place Hughes-Mason performed and coached between 2020 and 2022 – additionally issued a press release on Wednesday evening.

It learn: ‘This night the membership has been made conscious of some deeply surprising information relating to one in every of our former gamers and reserve group supervisor, Kiernan Hughes-Mason, who has been discovered responsible of crimes which are frankly sickening. Firstly, everybody related to the membership want to supply our deepest sympathy to the sufferer and their household. We are able to’t presumably think about what they’ve been going by way of since these horrific occasions passed off.

‘We are able to categorically say that the membership had no information in any respect of those occasions till as we speak. We’re advised that the crimes he has now been discovered responsible of occurred earlier than he joined us. Some severe flaws have been uncovered in procedures as we’d acquired affirmation from the related authorities that he was clear to teach as a part of customary background checks.

‘Our membership has an absolute zero tolerance coverage on behaviour even carefully referring to this. Our values are centered round positivity, inclusivity and above all else, making a secure place for all.

‘We reiterate our heartfelt sympathy for what the sufferer and their household have needed to undergo and want to remind anybody studying this of some assets which are obtainable must you want them: Childline: 0800 1111, Nationwide Home Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247’.

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