“Heads could roll” within Fife Council’s social work department for failing to monitor tragic Mikaeel Kular in the weeks before he was killed, it has been claimed.
Little Mikaeel’s mother Rosdeep Adekoya pleaded guilty to the culpable homicide of her three-year-old son after prosecutors accepted the assault fell short of the wicked recklessness required for murder in law.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard Adekoya drove Mikaeel’s twin sister to nursery after stowing his body inside a suitcase in her car boot, before hiding it in woodland in Kirkcaldy.
Advocate depute Alex Prentice QC said Mikaeel had been returned to Adekoya in August 2013 following a period in foster care in Fife.
However, Fife Council social work involvement had “ceased” in December 2013, just weeks before the tot’s tragic death.
Investigations by The Courier confirmed that, prior to being returned to his mother and his elder siblings, Mikaeel lived in the village of Strathkinness with a foster family for much of 2013.
The reasons behind the decision to return him to his mother’s care have never been revealed by Fife Council.
A source confirmed Mikaeel and his siblings had definitely “been involved” with the Children’s Panel in Kirkcaldy and when a family moved from one local authority area to another it was normal protocol for a hearing to take place to formally transfer the case.
“This hasn’t happened for whatever reason, meaning heads could roll,” she said.
Fife Council confirmed a review into the case is under way.
Additional reporting by Claire Warrender.
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