Question marks raised over other cases

The documentary raised serious concerns about information sharing and potential warnings being ignored in the lead up to the deaths of two other Fife children – Mikaeel Kular and Madison Horn – also in 2014.

Three-year-old Mikaeel was beaten to death by his mother, Rosdeep Adekoya, who put his body in a suitcase and dumped it behind her sister’s house in Kirkcaldy in January 2014.

She reported Mikaeel missing from their flat in Edinburgh, sparking a widespread two-day search.

The programme featured testimony from Mikaeel’s grandfather, Dr Bangrapet Krishnaswamy, who said he had contacted social services with his concerns about Adekoya but felt excluded from any decisions about the child’s future.

Two-year-old Madison Horn was killed by her mother’s boyfriend Kevin Park while he was babysitting her at her home in Kelty in April 2014.

The tot had suffered 65 separate injuries, and it emerged Park had 38 previous convictions – including some for domestic abuse. The programme suggested that, while a significant case review ruled Madison’s death could not have been anticipated, Park was being monitored by Fife social work’s criminal justice department.

Madison’s grandfather, Thomas Haldane, said: “To me, for Fife social work to turn round and say nothing could be done to prevent this tragedy … it’s just not true.

“There was something that could have been done.”