Miguel 'had an entire life to live', Ellie Reeves KC MP said after the Court of Appeal increased the minimum terms handed to the Wallasey parents who murdered him. On Tuesday 27 October 2026, judges raised the terms for Nivalda Santos Pirjani and Klevi Pirjani after the Attorney General referred the case under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme. It is a case rooted close to home: a family address in Seacombe, Wallasey, proceedings at Liverpool Crown Court and the final efforts to save Miguel at Alder Hey Children's Hospital.

According to the Attorney General's Office, Miguel spent the first month of his life in hospital before being discharged into his parents' care. Within days of coming home, he was assaulted for the first time and suffered two fractured ribs. The violence did not stop there. The court heard that the abuse carried on over the following weeks, growing more severe before the fatal assault on 24 November 2024, when Miguel was just 13 weeks old.

Paramedics restarted Miguel's heart after he suffered a heavy blow, or series of blows, to the head. He never regained consciousness and died five days later at Alder Hey. Medical examinations found 41 fractures in total, including injuries to his ribs, legs, arm, collarbone and spine. Those details, set out in court, underlined the repeated nature of the abuse.

The Court of Appeal was told it was not possible to say which parent inflicted the fatal injuries. Even so, the judge's finding was that they acted together, and that whichever one carried out the violence was encouraged by the other. That left no room for either defendant to step back from responsibility. In plain terms, the court treated this as sustained and shared violence against a baby who was wholly defenceless.

Ellie Reeves KC MP then used the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme to bring the case back before senior judges. In a statement issued by the Attorney General's Office, she said Miguel was subjected to appallingly cruel violence by the two people who should have protected him and welcomed the decision to increase both minimum terms. The scheme allows the Law Officers to ask the Court of Appeal to review sentences in the most serious cases. In this instance, the judges agreed that the original minimum terms should be raised.

At Liverpool Crown Court on 23 March 2026, Nivalda Santos Pirjani, 35, was jailed for life for murder with a minimum term of 15 years and three months, alongside a concurrent sentence of four years and six months for causing grievous bodily harm with intent. Klevi Pirjani, 37, received life with a minimum term of 19 years, plus a concurrent six years and six months for the same offence. After the Court of Appeal ruling on 27 October 2026, her minimum term rose to 17 years and 9 months, while his increased to 21 years and 6 months. It is the latest stage in a Wallasey case heard in Liverpool, with Miguel's short life and violent death at the centre of it.