A 24-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of his partner's two-year-old daughter in a temporary housing unit.
Scott Jeff was convicted of Isabella Wheildon's murder between June 26 and 30 last year at Ipswich Crown Court on Friday.
Isabella's mother, Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell, 24, had also been charged with murder but was cleared by a jury.
As well as murder, Jeff was convicted of two counts of cruelty to a child under 16.
Gleason-Mitchell had previously pleaded guilty to causing or allowing the death of a child and two counts of cruelty to a child under 16.
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Isabella had been found dead in a housing unit in Sidegate Lane, Ipswich, last June.
The couple had stayed in the Great Yarmouth area before the death, renting a caravan for four nights at the Haven holiday park in Caister.
Here they were captured on CCTV walking around on "numerous occasions" without Isabella, suggesting they had left her unsupervised.
They later checked into the St George Hotel in Great Yarmouth on June 9.
A receptionist said they remembered Gleason-Mitchell and Jeff regularly going outside to smoke, leaving Isabella in the room, and returning smelling strongly of cannabis.
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The couple left the hotel on June 12 and started camping in a small tent on the beach at Caister, having earlier gone to Great Yarmouth Borough Council to ask for accommodation.
After camping for four days on the beach, the couple moved to the Wild Duck holiday park in Belton where they were once again seen walking around alone, leaving Isabella unsupervised.
They left the site on June 19 and caught a train to Ipswich with Isabella wearing a puffa jacket and sunglasses to apparently hide her black eyes.
Jeff had entered into a relationship with Gleason-Mitchell in about May 2023. Both are of no fixed address but from the Bedfordshire area.
Prosecutors had argued that the pair subjected Isabella to a "regime of escalating brutality" that ended with police discovering her lifeless body in the Ipswich flats block on June 30, 2023.
A post-mortem of Isabella revealed she had suffered fractures all over her body. Sentencing will be held on December 13.
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