Baby P 'stepfather' launches appeal

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The boyfriend of Peter's mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was jailed for life last month with a minimum term of 10 years for raping a two-year-old girl.

He was also given a 12-year sentence to run concurrently for his "major role" in Peter's death.

The 32-year-old denied both charges and his lawyers have now lodged papers appealing against both convictions and both sentences with the Court of Appeal, a legal source confirmed.

Peter was 17 months old when he was found dead in a blood-spattered cot in Haringey, north London, in August 2007, having suffered a broken back and fractured ribs.

His 27-year-old mother was given an indefinite sentence with a minimum term of five years at the Old Bailey last month after pleading guilty to causing or allowing her son's death.

Her lodger, Jason Owen, 37, of Bromley, south-east London, received an indefinite sentence with a minimum term of three years for failing to take steps to save the little boy.

Attorney General Baroness Scotland is currently considering whether to refer the sentences handed down in the case to the Court of Appeal as "unduly lenient".

She is expected to announce her decision this week.