Smith was later found by a clinical psychologist to have a low IQ of 70 and to be highly compliant and subservient[1] and was reported to have played with dolls until the age of 16.
Social services closed their case on Star at about this time but it was reopened in May when her grandmother learned that Brockhill had been using wrestling moves to restrain the toddler with no intervention from Smith.
Later that month, CCTV footage captured Brockhill assaulting the child at her workplace in a recycling plant and Smith, who participated in the abuse of her daughter, dragging an unwell looking Star through town on her reins.
On 22 September, Star was playing with two other children at home when she was severely assaulted,[4] according to the later legal verdict through a "fatal punch or kick" delivered with "the force of a car crash".
[4] On 14 December 2021 at Bradford Crown Court, Savannah Brockhill was convicted of murdering Star Hobson while Frankie Smith was found guilty of causing or allowing her death.