Sentence cut for Lauren Wright killer

A woman who was jailed for 15 years last
November for killing Lauren Wright, her six-year-old stepdaughter,
has had her sentence cut at the Court of Appeal.

Tracey
Wright was sentenced for the manslaughter of Lauren, who died after
a blow to the stomach in May 2000.

But
three judges decided last week that she should only serve 12 years.
Lord Justice Kennedy said that Wright had taken on a child in
addition to her own children. “She was, on any view of the reports,
a lady of limited ability who would have found that task extremely
burdensome,” he said.

He
added that Wright had not received any support from Lauren’s father
Craig Wright, who is serving a three-year sentence for
neglect.