Couple guilty of Ryan's murder

A couple were today found guilty of murdering a three-year-old boy who died in hospital on Christmas Eve after being abused, neglected and beaten.

A jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court took seven hours to convict Christopher Taylor and Kayley Boleyn of killing Ryan Lovell-Hancox in an attack at their flat in Bilston in December 2008.

Click here to see pictures from inside the house where Ryan lived.

A four-week trial heard that Ryan's mother was paying around £40 a week for Taylor, 25, and 19-year-old Boleyn to look after Ryan while she decorated her home in the month before the boy's death.

The pair were also convicted of child cruelty.

Full reports and background in today's Express & Star.