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The Crown Prosecution Service announced on Wednesday that it had authorised West Midlands Police to charge Junaid Abuhamza and Angela Gordon with the murder of Khyra Ishaq, who was found dead at her Birmingham home in May,

Gordon, 33, and Abuhamza, 29, were already accused of "causing or allowing" the death of Khyra, who died after paramedics were called to her family home in Leyton Road, Handsworth, in the early hours of May 17.

The pair also face separate charges of cruelty to five other children, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.

A preliminary hearing in the case is being held before the Recorder of Birmingham, Judge Frank Chapman, at the city's Crown Court.

Today's hearing does not relate to the charge of murder, which will be formally brought against the defendants at Birmingham Magistrates' Court next Wednesday.