Shropshire Star

Archie Spriggs inquest is due to resume

An inquest on murdered schoolboy Archie Spriggs was due to resume in Shrewsbury today at 11am.

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Archie Spriggs

The seven-year-old was strangled and smothered by his mother Lesley Speed, 44, at their home in Church Stretton on September 21, 2017.

An inquest was opened and adjourned later that month, with Speed convicted following a trial in March 2018, and subsequently jailed for 18 years.

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