| Location | Brent London |
| Age | 4 years |
| Date of Birth | 12/1979 |
| Date of Death | 7/1984 |
| Visitors | 4,353 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
GOD BLESS YOU JASMINE
NO PAIN,NO WORRY.
NO FEAR UP ABOVE,
JUST FREEDOM,HAPPINESS
AND ETERNAL LOVE.
HAVE THE MOST WONDERFUL LIFE IN HEAVEN.
MY LOVE TO YOU ALWAYS
xxx
Verse Writer unknown..
NITE NITE JASMINE
When God was short of Angels
OH! Why did he choose you……
Because when God is short of Angels
Only the best will do...
Now God has got his Angel
And Heaven is a brighter place
But earth has lost its brightness
The sunshine of your face.
Author unknown.
REST YOUR WEARY HEAD AND DRIFT OFF INTO DREAMS,
FROLIC IN THE SUNSHINE AND BATHE IN GODS MOONBEAMS.
USE THE STARS AS STEPPING-STONES TO TAKE YOU TO YOUR PEACE,
THE PAIN OF LIFE FORGOTTEN NOW YOU HAVE FOUND RELEASE
WITH OUT RAIN A FLOWER FOLDS,THE PETAL DROP AND DIE,
THERE WAS NO WAY TO SAVE YOU,YOU COULDNT EVEN CRY.
SO WE CRY ALL THE TEARS INSTEAD AS WE MUST LET YOU GO,
TO HEAVEN AND GODS GARDEN TO BLOSSOM AND TO GROW.
THE LITTLE SEED IS PLANTED,YOU'LL BE WATERED EVEY DAY,
THE ANGELS WILL TEND ALL YOUR NEEDS AS IN THEIR ARMS YOU LAY.
YOUR LIFE WILL BE AMAZING NOW AND FULL OF WONDEROUS THINGS,
REST IN PEACE DEAR SWEET JASMINE,GO FLY ON ANGELS WINGS.
(Author unknown)
FOR MY LITTLE ANGEL FRIEND
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true
Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?
You Will Never Be Forgotten,
You Will Always Be Forever In My Heart.xxx
︽☆︽ BEAUTIFUL ANGEL ︽☆︽ ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER ︽☆︽ THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE SAY ︽☆︽ MANY A HEART WAS BROKEN ︽☆︽ THE DAY YOU WENT AWAY ︽☆︽
GOD BLESS YOU ANGEL.
xxx
Sweet Jasmine, xxxxxxx
The Next Place That I Go
By Warren Hanson
The next place that I go
Will be as peaceful and familiar
As a sleepy summer Sunday
And a sweet, untroubled mind.
And yet . . .
It won't be anything like any place I've ever been. . .
Or seen. . . or even dreamed of
In the place I leave behind.
I won't know where I'm going,
And I won't know where I've been
As I tumble through the always
And look back toward the when.
I'll glide beyond the rainbows.
I'll drift above the sky.
I'll fly into the wonder, without ever wondering why.
I won't remember getting there.
Somehow I'll just arrive.
But I'll know that I belong there
And will feel much more alive
Than I have ever felt before.
I will be absolutely free of the things that I held onto
That were holding onto me.
The next place that I go
Will be so quiet and so still
That the whispered song of sweet belonging will rise up to fill
The listening sky with joyful silence,
And with unheard harmonies
Of music made by no one playing,
Like a hush upon breeze.
There will be no room for darkness in that place of living light,
Where an ever-dawning morning pushes back the dying night.
The very air will fill with brilliance, as the brightly shining sun
And the moon and half a million stars are married into one.
The next place that I go Won't really be a place at all.
There won't be any seasons --
Winter, summer, spring or fall --
Nor a Monday, Nor a Friday,
Nor December, Nor July.
And the seconds will be standing still. . .
While hours hurry by.
I will not be a boy or girl,
A woman or man.
I'll simply be just, simply, me.
No worse or better than.
My skin will not be dark or light.
I won't be fat or tall.
The body I once lived in
Won't be part of me at all.
I will finally be perfect.
I will be without a flaw.
I will never make one more mistake,
Or break the smallest law.
And the me that was impatient,
Or was angry, or unkind,
Will simply be a memory.
The me I left behind.
I will travel empty-handed.
There is not a single thing
I have collected in my life
That I would ever want to bring Except. . .
The love of those who loved me,
And the warmth of those who cared.
The happiness and memories
And magic that we shared.
Though I will know the joy of solitude. . .
I'll never be alone. I'll be embraced
By all the family and friends I've ever known.
Although I might not see their faces,
All our hearts will beat as one,
And the circle of our spirits
Will shine brighter than the sun.
I will cherish all the friendship I was fortunate to find,
All love and all the laughter in the place I leave behind.
All these good things will go with me.
They will make my spirit glow.
And that light will shine forever In the next place that I go.
THE PLACE WHERE LITTLE ANGELS GO.
Fluffy clouds of pink and blue
Where fairytales and dreams come true
Where teddy bears put on shows
In the place where little Angels go.
Where a choir of angels sing on high
A peaceful, soothing lullaby
And their feathers flutter down like snow
In the place where little Angels go.
Where the sun is shining everyday
In a heavenly sky that’s never grey
Where love will bloom and always grow
In the place where little Angels go.
God Bless You Jasmine.xxx
BEAUTIFUL ANGEL.
HELLO BEAUTIFUL ANGEL UP ABOVE
HOPE YOU CAN SEE ME
SENDING YOU ALL MY LOVE
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
AS WIDE AS CAN BE AND
HERE'S A GREAT ((((((BIG HUG)))))
SENT TO YOU FROM ME.
ALL MY LOVE I SEND TO HEAVEN FOR YOU,xxx
LITTLE ANGEL JASMINE
GOODNIGHT
♥ღ☆ Tiny star, Shining Bright, It's Time for Me to say Goodnight. ♥ღ☆ so close your Eyes & Snuggle up Tight, I'm wishing you Sweet Dreams Tonight ♥ღ☆
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♥Love To You Always Angel ♥
God saw that you were suffering
And helpless as can be
So he took you gently in his arms
And whispered, little one come with me
I will take you far away from here
To a place where you are free
From the pain and hurting
Up in Heaven with me
A place when you can play again
And be loved eternally.
HAVE A WONDERFUL LIFE IN GODS BEAUTIFUL GARDEN.xxx
Author unknown.
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