The grandmother of a girl who died from a brain injury after a campaign of abuse has been found guilty of cruelty to other children after a retrial.
Juanila Smikle, 55, was convicted last year of cruelty towards seven-year-old Shanay Walker, who was found dead at a house on Beckhampton Road in Bestwood, in July 2014.
Smikle was also found guilty of cruelty to three other children and sentenced to four years in prison.
She appealed against the conviction and a retrial was ordered.
In the original trial, the court heard evidence that a fifth child had also suffered cruelty from Smikle and, in addition to the four original cruelty charges, Smikle was charged with a fifth count which had not been concluded in the 2015 trial.
Her sentence for the original charges was upheld at the conclusion of the retrial at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday, October 4.
Smikle was also convicted of the new cruelty charge and given a further three years imprisonment, to run consecutively.
Smikle’s 24-year-old daughter, Kay-Ann Morris, was also convicted of cruelty at the original trial is serving eight years in prison.
