A couple who left a four-year-old boy alone to die after subjecting him to months of "unprecedented" starvation and horrifying cruelty have both been jailed for at least 30 years.
Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek listened intently in the dock but showed no sign of emotion as Mrs Justice Cox condemned their "unfathomable" campaign of brutality against Daniel Pelka.
Daniel's mother and stepfather, both originally from Poland, were unanimously convicted of murder on Wednesday after blaming each other for the head injury which ultimately caused his death.
A nine-week trial heard that Daniel, whose death is the subject of a serious case review by Coventry's Safeguarding Children Board, weighed just one stone, 9lbs when he died in March last year.
During his final months, Daniel was denied food, forced to perform energy-sapping punishment exercises, confined in a locked box room, poisoned with salt and subjected to water torture.
The serious case review is investigating whether more could have been done to save Daniel, who was seen scavenging for food in bins at Coventry's Little Heath Primary School.
The youngster, whose mother covered up the abuse by claiming he had an eating disorder, was also the subject of a social services inquiry after suffering a broken arm in January 2011. Krezolek, 34, and Luczak, 27, were both jailed for life and ordered to serve minimum terms of 30 years before the Parole Board can even consider their release.
Sentencing, Mrs Justice Cox said she believed Krezolek had inflicted Daniel's fatal head injury.
She told them: "Harrowing details of the unimaginable acts of cruelty and brutality inflicted on Daniel have exposed both the torment and despair he must have suffered and your callous disregard for his pain and distress."
