A KIRKLEES COUNCIL social worker failed to pass on warnings a toddler had a bruise on her head a week before she was murdered because she was "extremely busy", she said today.

Judyth Kenworthy admitted she had made a mistake in not acting on concerns about Sanam Navsarka, whose death followed weeks of appalling abuse in which she suffered more than 100 injuries.

Giving evidence, she told a conduct hearing: "The only thing I can say is I was extremely busy.

"I was trying to get to somewhere else, to go to an important meeting and it was just one of those situations where it took over and that just didn't register as being vitally important and that was the mistake I made."

She added that she had never worked with children before.

Sanam, of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, died on May 8 2008.