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Judge Margaret Obi found the restraints constituted battery and that being prevented from leaving his room constituted unlawful imprisonment.

In a video, his younger sister Obi told the public inquiry how the pair had spent their early years in Nigeria before their family moved to the UK.

Chrystal Obi, the girl’s mother, offered one explanation in a statement to The Times in which she expressed anger over the death of her daughter and lambasted the court system she said allowed it to happen.

Obi said she constantly feared for Ellie’s safety with her father, but the courts “continued to grant him partial custody and access.”

Obi added that she and the family had been experiencing overwhelming pain and grief.