| Location | Brent London |
| Age | 4 years |
| Date of Birth | 12/1979 |
| Date of Death | 7/1984 |
| Visitors | 18,803 since 22/07/2008 |
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Jasmine Beckford weighed just 23lbs when she died from a savage blow inflicted by her stepfather that dislodged her brain.
For the final months of her life he had kept her chained to a bed in a tiny attic. Her death was finally attributed to brain damage although the pathologist found she had 40 other injuries covering her face and body, including 20 broken bones. Some of the injuries happened in the days before she died on 5 july 1984. Others went back months.Following their trial at the Old Bailey in spring 1985, Beckford was jailed for ten years for jasmine's manslaughter while her mother, Beverley Lorrington, was sentenced to 18 months for wilful neglect and cruelty.During her brief life Jasmine had suffered leg fractures, broken ribs, burns and cuts- all at the hands of her stepfather Morris Beckford.Beckford, who was born in jamaica in june, 1959, arrived in Britain as a nine-year-old with two of his sisters, to be reunited with his parents. By the time he was 13 he had been accused of stealing from his own home and was being beaten by both his parents. After attention by the Police and NSPCC both of his parents were prosecuted for ill-treatment and neglect -the teenage Beckford had been forced to sleep in an outhouse without a bed. Beckford was sent to a special school where he met fellow pupil Beverly Lorrington. She was born in November 1959 in London. Her mother had deserted the family when Beverley was only six months old.Beverley later claimed that her childhood was a miserable succession of beatings by both her stepmother and her father.She began living with Morris Beckford when she was 19 years old and several months pregnant with jasmine, who was not Beckford's child. jasmine was born on 2 December 1979 in London and given the name jasmine Lorrington. Shortly afterwards her birth records were changed at the insistence of Morris Beckford.Two-and-a-half years later Beverley gave birth to jasmine's sister, Louise Beckford.When she was only five months old, Louise was admitted to hospital with a broken arm and eye haemorrhages. Doctors warned that her injuries were non-accidental.Three days later, 18-month-old jasmine was taken to the same hospital with a broken femur. jasmine was discharged from hospital after six weeks. Two months later Morris Beckford was found guilty of assaulting Louise, causing actual bodily harm, and given a suspended six-month jail term and a £250 fine.Five months later, in April 1982, a case conference of professionals in Brent decided that both jasmine and Louise, who had been with foster parents, should be returned home on a trial basis.Between April and November 1982, Beverley spasmodically took jasmine to a day nursery.between january and june 1983, she attended nursery school - but on increasingly irregular occasions. Her last recorded attendance was 9 September 1983. The couple's third child,Chantelle, was born shortly before Christmas - seven months before jasmine was to die.At 5.30pm on 5 july 1984 jasmine was dead on arrival at hospital.That day, Lorrington had returned home to find Beckford carrying jasmine's lifeless body downthe stairs. jasmine had been dead for some time. She had 20 broken bones, including ribs, pelvis and pubic bone. She had cuts, bruises, grazes and cigarette burns over most of her body. She had multiple fractures of her left leg and she was little more than a skeleton through lack of food.At midnight the following day her parents were charged with her murder. Morris Beckford immediately admitted killing jasmine.The postmortem results ran to seven pages and revealed an appalling catalogue of abuse. The pathologist found dozens of injuries sustained through slaps and hard punches only a day or so before her death - including the fatal brain injury. Although she was three feet five inches tall,there was barely an inch of her body that did not carry evidence of injury.It became clear that, after breaking her leg, Beckford had pinned jasmine to a bed with body-building weights to stop her moving. He had then stuffed weights into jasmine's leg warmers in a crude attempt to straighten the damaged limb. When she had cried out in pain he had punched her so hard that he had left knuckle marks on her forehead. His idea of medicine, for a child so obviously in distress, had been to administer rum and water or Guinness.When he eventually hit her so hard on the head that she died, he had tried to revive her by giving her an electric shock from a piece of flex attached to a plug.When that had failed, he refused to call an ambulance and, instead, loaded her body into his sister-in-law's car to drive her to hospital. Please remember Jasmine, and all other children who have died in similar circumstances. RIP ANGEL XXXXX
hi jasmine im your little sister louise i just want to say i miss you so much only god knows i wish you were here to look after me and your little sister but i now your sitting with the angle's looking down on me and my sister i want you to no that you are an auntie o'lord miss u but i no your safe now cause the lord is looking after u i love u jasmine so much.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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The sun goes down
The moon comes out
All the stars light up the sky
It’s time to rest your golden wings
And snuggle up for the night
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It’s time to say “Goodnight”
Sleep gently on you soft cloud bed
Keeping all warm and snug
God bless, Sweet dreams
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Copyright� Leza 2/5/2010
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The Easter bunnies coming
Hopping all around
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These Easter eggs are given
With lots and lots of love
To our special angels
In heaven up above
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Copyright� Leza 3/4/2010
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For the little girl with the most amazing smile - Jasmine
Janelle - Amazing
The morning cold and raining,
dark before the dawn could come
How long in twilight waiting
longing for the rising sun
ohoh ohoh Oh ooh
You came like crashing thunder
breaking through these walls of stone
You came with wide eyed wonder
into all this great unknown
ohoh ohoh Ohoooh Oohh
Hush now don't you be afraid
I promise you I'll always stay
I'll never be that far away
I'm right here with you
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You're so amazing you shine like the stars
You're so amazing the beauty you are
You came blazing right into my heart
You're so amazing you are...
You are
You came from heaven shining
Breath of God still flows from fresh on you
The beating heart inside me
Crumbled at this one so new
ohoh ohoh Oooh ooohhh
No matter where or how far you wander
For a thousand years or longer
I will always be there for you
Right here with you
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You're so amazing you shine like the stars
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You're so amazing the beauty you are
You came blazing right into my heart
You're so amazing you are...
I hope your tears are few and fast
I hope your dreams come true at last
I hope you find love that goes on and on and on and on and on
I hope you wish on every star
I hope you never fall too far
I hope this world can see how wonderful you are
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You're so amazing you shine like the stars
You're so amazing the beauty you are
You came blazing right into my heart
You're so amazing...
You're so amazing you shine like the stars
You're so amazing the beauty you are
You came blazing right into my heart
You're so amazing you are...
You are
Night night precious Angel..
Now it's time for bed
Just you snuggle up..
And rest your beautiful head
Cuddle up with all the Angels..
As I say Goodnight..
Just you rest your Angel wings..
And have sweet dreams 'til morning light
I will blow you Night night kisses..
As they are so full of love
So catch my kisses and have sweet dreams..
Precious Angel up above
copyright� Jackie Thomas 31/08/09
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