Mum faces court over tot's 2008 death

The mother of a 23-month-old girl who died in Victoria in 2008 is one of two people charged with her murder.

Homicide detectives arrested a 35-year-old woman and a 44-year-old man in Echuca on Tuesday and charged them over the murder of Angela Bannister.

Angela was just one month shy of her second birthday when she died in suspicious circumstances in Echuca on July 19, 2008.

Angela's mother Tania Walker and her partner (at the time) Daniel Simmons briefly faced Echuca Magistrate's Court on Tuesday afternoon and were remanded in custody.

An inquest into Angela's death in 2012 ruled that the child had died from injuries caused by her mother or stepfather.