Baby P: The world speaks

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THE Sun’s petition demanding justice for Baby P rocketed past a MILLION signatures last night.
A record 1,146,000 share our outrage and back our crusade for those who failed the tortured tot to be fired.

It is officially the biggest newspaper campaign ever — and support has poured in from around the world.

The message to Gordon Brown could not be clearer as The Sun today delivers its million-plus petition for Baby P’s social workers to be sacked: The PEOPLE have spoken.

Reader Tina Streeter, 36 — whose 17-month son is the same age as Baby P — declared: “The Government must take notice.”

As our staff yesterday filled more than 100 mailbags to bursting with signatures, one tearful mum urged us: “Keep going — please don’t give up.

“This must not be laid to rest. Justice must be done.”

Fiona Collins, 29, was taking her children to Baby P’s shrine when she vented her outrage at those ducking blame for allowing the toddler to be tortured to death. They include a woman paediatrician who we are demanding be struck off.

Click on the images above right to read more about the bunglers who failed to save Baby P.

At 17 months old, Fiona’s youngest Jesse is the same age as Baby P when he died in unimaginable agony in his blood-spattered cot. As Fiona’s older child Jude, three, helped lay a blue teddy at Baby P’s final resting place, the mum said: “That doctor and those social workers must be punished for what happened.

Faith
“They MUST lose their jobs. How can anyone have faith in them after this?”

Mum Sarah Heasman, 28, was also among the hundreds grieving at the shrine yesterday — after taking her two toddlers to the North London cemetery for a second time. Sarah, from Hounslow, West London, said as her two-year-old Chloe left a pink mug: “When I told her we were going to see Baby P she thought we were going to play with him.

“I had to tell her he was asleep — it was the only way I could think of to describe it.”

Hugh Crane, 38, who travelled 150 miles from Grantham, Lincs, said: “I just hope that with The Sun’s brilliant campaign something will be done to stop this happening again.”

The huge pile of flowers and toys at the shrine was last night mirrored by the mountain of 1,146,000 signatures in The Sun’s post room.

They included printouts of the names of 570,538 who signed our petition online. We had to draft in extra staff to bag them all up.

Today a hired truck will set off from our Wapping HQ to deliver them to No10 Downing Street.

Signatures have poured in from as far away as Dubai, Cancun in Mexico, Johannesburg and Sydney — setting a record for the largest newspaper campaign EVER.

Doctor Kerry Staines, 25, from Barnet, North London, told how she was stunned at the bungling paediatrician who, two days before Baby P died, failed to spot he was paralysed from the waist down by a snapped spine.

She said: “How she missed a baby’s broken back I have no idea. She should be struck off — and those social workers are a disgrace for listening to the lies his mum told.”

Battered Baby P was on an “at risk” register but North London’s Haringey Council has refused to condemn health or social workers who saw him 60 times — and let him stay with his twisted mum.

The same authority was blasted over its failings in the Victoria Climbie scandal — which saw the eight-year-old also tortured to death.

Baby P’s evil mum and his sadistic stepdad, 32 — who pulled out his fingernails — cannot be named. They and lodger Jason Owen, 36 — also convicted two weeks ago of appalling cruelty — await sentence

Tear
Prison officers at London’s Holloway jail are being paid overtime to guard Baby P’s hated mum from fellow inmates, The Sun can reveal.

She is in a segregation unit but six have to run a gauntlet with her when she needs to see her lawyers. A “freeze” is imposed on the movements of all other prisoners, according to a leaked document. Meanwhile the Legal Visits Room has to be cleared for two hours at a time. Prison governors have already received a direct threat to maim her, sources said.

They fear one of the 500 female cons will be tempted to go further.

A jail insider said: “Some of the women here are serving 20 years, so they don’t mind a few extra months for bashing her in.

“They are mothers and can’t believe how she could hurt her own kid. I don’t think we should be paid to stop it happening — because she deserves everything coming to her.

“Not since Maxine Carr have we had someone here so hated equally by staff and inmates.

“She just shrugs her shoulders when asked about what happened. I’ve never seen her shed a tear for Baby P. She’s a cold-hearted bitch.”

Last night the Prison Service said: “We don’t comment on individual prisoners.”