Bullying of Ryanair pilot drove partner to kill toddler son
A BOY was killed by his ex-flight attendant mother after her bullying, unfaithful Ryanair pilot fiancé drove her to a mental breakdown.
James Chilvers, just 23 months old, was stabbed to death at his home.
His mother, Magdalena Lesicka, 32, then tried to kill herself but survived.
She suffered cruelty from partner Peter Chilvers, including being made to eat hair he plucked from his head – while he was having an affair with another air stewardess.
He returned from a flight to Tenerife in the early hours, found her injured and took her to hospital, unaware his son James had suffered the attack.
When concern for the toddler was raised, police rushed to the property and found James dead in a bedroom in Wythenshawe, Manchester.
Two years on, the facts can be reported for the first time. Lesicka has been jailed for 15 years after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Chilvers was yesterday jailed for 18 months for abuse that led to the death of his son.The former couple were dealt with in separate hearings.
Lesicka’s sentencing hearing, in Preston in July last year, heard she suffered “deliberate, relentless and ultimately overwhelming psychological torment” and violence, threats he would take James away and cruelty and degradation, including squeezing her nose so she could not breathe. Lesicka was planning to leave in the days before James’ death.
“As a tragic, innocent victim he (James) was caught between two warring parents,” Mr Justice Dove told Lesicka as he sentenced her last year. Chilvers’ trial for coercive behaviour ended with a guilty verdict at Manchester Crown Court last month. Reporting restrictions had prevented publication of details until now.
When there was still no sign an hour later we called again.
“This time we were told they were doing their best but that they didn’t know when they would get to her.”
Former factory worker Mr Gilby said the ambulance finally arrived shortly before 2pm, and his daughter was rushed to Prince Charles Hospital in nearby Merthyr Tydfil.
But in the early hours of yesterday Donna, who had an irregular heartbeat, suffered a cardiac arrest and died. She leaves an 11-year-old daughter.
Ambulance service chiefs have launched an investigation into the delay in getting Ms Gilby to hospital.
The Welsh Ambulance Service’s chief executive said a spike in emergency calls and “pressures across the whole care system” were having a huge impact.
Jason Killens said: “We were deeply saddened to hear about
FRONTLINE NHS staff who have ignored pleas to have the flu jab are irresponsible, claims Matt Hancock.
The Health Secretary hit out after official figures revealed that hundred of thousands of doctors, nurses and clinicians treating seriously ill patients had not been vaccinated against the killer virus.
More than a million workers have been offered it but take-up so far this season is just 61.5 per cent.
Crisis
And that is despite warnings of a Christmas flu crisis.
Mr Hancock said: “It is wrong for any frontline NHS staff not to be vaccinated against flu without a good medical reason.
“This is an essential measure to ensure both patients and staff are protected throughout the winter period.
“I am determined to reach universal uptake for NHS workers next year.”
His public scolding comes just a week after health chiefs
the death of Ms Gilby and would like to extend our heartfelt condolences to her family.
“We are sorry our response took longer than we would have liked on this occasion.
“Lengthy waits for an ambulance are a sign of pressures across the whole unscheduled care system, not just in Wales but across the UK.”
In Wales the average number of daily calls to the ambulance service increased last month and there was a record number of the most serious 999 calls.
A 65 per cent target for “red” urged parents to protect themselves and their children.
They said hundreds of thousands of families could see holiday plans ruined, and there was concern that so few young children – the “super spreaders” of flu – have been inoculated.
GP consultations for influenza-like illnesses have risen by a quarter, according to Public Health England.
More than 68 per cent of over-65s and in excess of 37 per cent of at-risk under-65s, as well as nearly 39 per cent of pregnant women, have received their jabs.
But only about 29 per cent of two-year-olds and 28 per cent of three-year-olds have been protected.
Delays in the delivery of vaccines mean uptake among that age group is lagging behind previous seasons.
England’s chief nurse Professor Jane Cummings said last year some NHS staff wrongly believed the flu jab gives them the illness.
urgent calls to receive a response within eight minutes was not met for the first time since new response targets were introduced in Wales.
The Welsh Government said: “It is disappointing to see the target for red ambulance calls missed for the first time.
“However, despite the increase in demand, the average response in this category remained at six minutes and 39 seconds, and 73 per cent of patients received a response in 10 minutes.”