Joanne Hughes: Last News

The husband of a Post Office branch manager left with a criminal record has said it would "mean the world to" his late wife if her name is cleared after her tragic death.

A popular Lanarkshire confectionery firm is looking to hire new staff members - with one employee who has been with the company for nearly 30 years choc-full of praise for her employers.

gran of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes – who was tortured and murdered by his evil step-mum – says she feels like she has “failed”.Joanne Hughes, who took pictures of her grandson’s bruises and reported them to social services, also claimed Arthur would be “happy” and “thriving” if her son, Thomas Hughes, 29, had never met Emma Tustin, 32.Speaking following Tustin’s murder sentence – during which the court heard details of the grim torture Arthur was subjected to – Joanne said the young boy had been “the sunlight in all our lives”, reports The Sun.Her heart-breaking statement added: “As a mother and grandmother it is with profound despondency that I have failed in my sole purpose to keep my loved ones safe and ensure their life is