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Man jailed for life after murdering partner's toddler in Ipswich

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Scott Jeff , 24 , will serve a minimum term as part of a life sentence for the murder of Isabella Jonas-Wheildon .

Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell received 10 years in prison after admitting causing or allowing the death of a child.

Isabella 's body was found with "traumatic injuries" in Ipswich , Suffolk , in June 2023 .

Her mother was found not guilty of murder at a trial in November .

Judge: " Jeff , you subjected that defenceless little girl to a brutal campaign of violence".

Jeff Gleason-Mitchell told a friend Isabella had been dead in her pushchair for three days .

The alarm was only raised when she told Joanne Gardner she was dead.

The following day they abandoned Isabella and left their flat, catching a bus into the town centre.

They then went shopping, to McDonald's and then a pub before spending hours drinking and laughing.