Calls grow for report in full on boy torturers

PRESSURE is mounting on the Government to publish in full a report into the Edlington torture case, as the parents of one of the boys who was attacked said they were considering legal action.

Children’s Secretary Ed Balls, MP for Normanton, has resisted calls from Tory leader David Cameron for the release of a serious case review (SCR) into Doncaster Council’s dealings with two brothers locked up indefinitely for a sadistic attack on two young boys.

But the parents of one of the boys who was sadistically tortured said last night they were considering legal action after hearing about how various agencies failed to stop their son’s tormentors earlier.

Revelations of how social services and other organisations missed numerous opportunities to intervene with the perpetrators during their violent and chaotic upbringing has provoked widespread anger.

The mother of the older victim told a Sunday newspaper: “Why did it take until they tried to kill (the two boys) for them (the authorities) to do something?

“They’d assaulted kids where they’d lived before, they shouted at a woman with five kids and punched the woman. The police did nothing.

“They threatened a teacher with a baseball bat. We knew none of this until it came out in court. We were furious.”

The Yorkshire Post revealed on Saturday that Audit Commission inspectors were poised to move into the council, where only one member of staff was disciplined for the multiple failings which led to the Edlington attack.

The torturers were aged 10 and

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