.' Mrs Justice Lambert was broadcast handing down her sentence - the third time cameras have been allowed into an English criminal crown court to record a sentencing. The trial in June heard Sebastian came to Huddersfield from Poland in October 2020, with teaching staff describing him as 'a pleasant and well-mannered boy' who 'was observed to be quiet and timid, and at times appeared sad'. 'Punishments became increasingly severe and violent' Prosecutor Jason Pitter KC said that by New Year's Eve the defendants' attitude was that Sebastian was 'something of a hindrance,' and that from January 2021, 'the disciplining of (him) became progressively harsh'. The court heard his 'punishments' were 'by any stretch of the imagination cruel and became increasingly more severe and violent over time'. After the couple were arrested in connection with Sebastian's death, police seized CCTV cameras from their house, which prosecutors said had been installed partly to 'monitor and exert control over Sebastian remote){kind=link}
Sebastian Kalinowski (15) died in August 2021 after weeks of ‘cruel assaults and abuse’
Video footage of a tortured teenage boy cowering in his bedroom after being beaten by his mother and her partner has been released as the couple were jailed for life.
Sebastian Kalinowski died of an infection caused by “untreated complications of multiple rib fractures” after weeks of what prosecutors described as “cruel assaults and abuse” at the hands of his mother Agnieszka Kalinowska, 35, and her long-term partner Andrzej Latoszewski, 38.
A jury at Leeds Crown Court heard the 15-year-old, who had been in the UK for less than a year after moving from Poland to live with his mother, was beaten with a bed slat, whipped with an extension cable and stabbed with a needle at the couple’s home in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
Sebastian’s father Jacek Kalinowski watched proceedings by video link from Poland.