A Health and Social Care Trust and Mother GH and Father IJ

All of the parties in this judgment have been anonymised so as protect the identities of the children to whom the proceedings relate.� Nothing must be disclosed or published without the permission of the court which might lead to their identification or the identification of any adult relatives.

[1]������� This case centres around the care planning for three children - a boy AB who is 15, another boy CD who is 13 and a girl EF who is 9.� I gave a judgment in July 2019 after a protracted fact finding hearing in which I detailed the violent and destructive relationship between their parents which had blighted the lives of the children.� It has continued to do so.� The father appealed against my judgment to the Court of Appeal and that appeal was dismissed.� At paragraph 35 of its judgment, [2020] NICA 3 , the Court of Appeal said:

�This is a horrific case and the awfulness of the harm caused to all three children is readily apparent to this Court even though it is one step removed from the consideration of the primary evidence in this case. �The degree of inhumanity displayed by IJ in relation to GH is beyond comprehension. �The Court considers that this appeal has served to give rise to further harm being inflicted upon the three children, one of whom is suffering from a serious illness.�� �

[2]������� The current position with the children should be explained at the start:

[5]������� The father was not called to give evidence during either part of the care planning hearing, the first part about AB and EF, the second part about CD.� There was short and limited questioning by his counsel of the few witnesses who were called on the basis that the father�s statement was to be taken as read as were all statements, Trust reports, Guardian reports and experts� reports.� In addition, at the conclusion of the hearings, I received written submissions on behalf of the Trust and the father.�