{"id":12361,"date":"2017-10-25T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/25\/elsie-scully-hicks-was-always-smiling-says-father-accused-of-her-murder\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:48:16","slug":"elsie-scully-hicks-was-always-smiling-says-father-accused-of-her-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12361","title":{"rendered":"Elsie Scully-Hicks was always smiling, says father accused of her murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Scully-Hicks cries as he tells jury at Cardiff crown court that adopted 18-month-old liked attentionA fitness instructor accused of murdering his adopted daughter sobbed as he told a jury about the toddler\u2019s smile and her love of attention.Matthew Scully-Hicks, 31, adopted Elsie Scully-Hicks two weeks before she died at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. She was found to have suffered bleeding on the brain, retinal bleeding in both eyes, a skull fracture and fractures to three ribs and her leg. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2017\/oct\/25\/elsie-scully-hicks-was-always-smiling-says-father-accused-trial\" target=\"_blank\">Elsie Scully-Hicks was always smiling, says father accused of her murder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Scully-Hicks cries as he tells jury at Cardiff crown court that adopted 18-month-old liked attentionA fitness instructor accused of murdering his adopted daughter sobbed as he told a jury about the toddler\u2019s smile and her love of attention.Matthew Scully-Hicks, 31, adopted Elsie Scully-Hicks two weeks before she died at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}