After serving half their sentence, the parents of the baby who were tortured by his father are due to be freed in just days.
Tony Hudgell received a ten year sentence from his birth parents Jody Simpson, 24 and Anthony Smith 47.
They have now been freed after serving only five years. Smith is expected to be out next week and Simpson at the end August.
Tony is now seven years old and suffered broken fingers, toes, torn muscles, and sepsis. His birth parents had left Tony to be in pain for ten days before he was taken to the hospital.
Paula Hudgell (54), the boy’s adopted mother has been campaigning for harsher punishments of child abusers for years. The news was described as “sickening” and felt “like a punch to the stomach”.
Tony Hudgell (pictured), who suffered so much abuse from his birth father that both of his legs required to be amputated. Tony is angry that his birth mother will soon be released
Anthony Smith (left), as well as Jody Simpson (right), were both found guilty in attacking Tony while he was only 41 days old. Both were sentenced for a total of ten years, but they will be freed soon after only five years.
When the medics saw the infant, he was near death and both his legs had to be amputated due to extreme abuse.
She stated that “these monsters spent only five years in prison, while Tony will face a lifetime full of problems as a direct result of their wickedness.”
“I can’t do anything about it, as they release automatically.
They don’t have to appear before the parole board, or show any regret to be released.
“But even though this day has always been my destiny, it isn’t any less difficult.
“The fact that Simpson is being released just days after August 2007, the terrible death of Peter Connelly, makes this even harder to bear.
“It is like receiving a beating to my stomach. I feel sick when I see that the abusers of children and babies will be gone in just a few years.
“These monsters might be living in your street, and you wouldn’t know.
Simpson and Smith both get released automatically halfway through their sentences. It was at that time the longest sentence they could be given, but it also allowed them to spend less time in remand.
Mrs Hudgell said that Tony was ‘angry’ about the release of his family members and wants him to join the police force to arrest them again.
She replied, “Tony clearly knows that they did wrong things to him. So he went to prison. I was very cross with him when he said that they would not be there for long.
He said that he wanted to become a police officer when he gets older, but he told me that he needed to sign up now to re-arrest the suspects.
“It is ironic that Tony, who won the Prime Minister’s Points of Light Award during lockdown 2020, has been invited for a reception August 9, a date Simpson could leave jail.
Tony was a tiny baby at the time of the attack (pictured), and suffered broken bones, torn muscles, sepsis, and other injuries before doctors decided to amputate his badly injured legs.
Tony and Paula Hudgell are pictured together. Paula Hudgell fought for Tony’s Law, named after her adopted son. This law increased the sentence that child abusers get.
Paula’s husband Mark (57 years old) adopted Tony before Simpson and Smith from Whitstable in Kent were ever charged. This meant that the couple could not keep their addresses private and couldn’t change Tony his name.
The Hudgells were informed that they will have to agree to conditions, including not to contact their family or excluding them altogether from Kent.
Simpson and Smith were not prosecuted until Mrs Hudgell had campaigned and MEP Tom Tugendhat was.
Mrs Hudgell successfully campaigned for Tony’s law in order to increase sentences for those found guilty causing ‘serious harm’ to a child from ten to 14 years.
The sentence for those found guilty of inflicting the death or injury to a child is now 14 years.
The seven-year-old has won a Pride of Britain award for raising £1.7million for the hospital which started treating him when he was just 41-days-old.
Mail Online has reached out to Ministry of Justice regarding their concerns.