BLACK MOM ALLOWS RACIST BOYFRIEND TO RACIALLY ABUSE & MURDER SON"

BLACK MOM ALLOWS RACIST BOYFRIEND TO RACIALLY ABUSE & MURDER SON"

Deraye Lewis lived in Dunstable, Milton Keynes with his mother, Donna Humphrey, and her boyfriend.

Deraye was racially abused, repeatedly beaten and burnt with cigarettes by the boyfriend-Nicholas Halling. Donna Humprey (the mother) who was also black, called the police over an assault allegation against Halling (which she later withdrew).

The police noticed on arrival that Deraye had been crying but could see no obvious injuries so they left unaware of the previous history of Deraye, Donna and Hallings.

Deraye spent the rest of the day complaining of stomach ache and being sick and neighbors heard Halling shout: "That f****** baby is spoiling my life! We can't do anything without him spoiling things!" Hours later, Donna woke up to find Deraye dying in bed beside her.

Deraye was taken to Milton Keynes hospital where he died later that day. More than 73 injuries were found on his tiny body. His bowel had been ruptured, his eardrum perforated, the surface of his brain bruised and his skin burned with cigarettes.

On the day of his death, he had suffered a blow to his abdomen that split his duodenum, poisoning his blood system. The court was also told that Halling had referred to the little boy as 'Black ba***rd' and wrote 'n**ger' on him in felt pen. Deraye was even forced to repeat these words.

Social workers in Bedfordshire were tipped off that Halling was abusing Deraye some six months before he was brutally murdered.

Mistake number one came when they, social services, failed to pick up the signs of Halling's racist attacks, which included stubbing out cigarettes on the little Deraye's body and calling him racist names. Instead they believed the cover-up stories from terrified mom Donna, even when, according to sources, she presented herself "black and blue" with bruises from Halling's attacks on her. Three months before Deraye's death, Donna finally admitted Halling was beating her and fled to safety in Milton Keynes.

Mistake number two came when Bedfordshire social services omitted to pass the information on to Milton Keynes social services, though they stated clearly on her emergency housing application that she was 'fleeing domestic violence'.

This led to mistake number three – when Milton Keynes housing department failed to inform their own colleagues in social services that they had moved a vulnerable mom and child into a house in Bletchley's Osborne Street. Thus when Deraye's mother Donna rekindled the relationship with Halling, not one official noticed.

It should also be noted that Halling was under the supervision of a probation officer at the time
and had convictions dating back to childhood.

Halling was convicted of Deraye's murder and jailed for life with a recommendation that he serve at least twenty years