
The final few weeks of Ethan Ives-Griffiths' short existence must have been a living hell. The once smiley and chubby two-year-old was starved of food and water and repeatedly punched, leaving him severely dehydrated, underweight and covered in marks and bruises. Harrowing video footage, filmed just ten days before his death on August 16, 2021, showed him walking with a strange, knock-kneed gait and falling over, barely able to hold up his own head. Mail.