Mum of Alfie Steele and her partner convicted over nine-year-old's death after he faced months of abuse
Carla Scott was convicted at Coventry Crown Court of the manslaughter of her nine-year-old son Alfie Steele and her partner Dirk Howell was convicted of murdering the youngster, who was repeatedly assaulted.
Prosecutors said he was beaten and put in a cold bath as part of a cruel and "sinister" regime of correction by Scott and Howell in Droitwich, Worcestershire. She said she had last seen Howell a couple of days earlier but CCTV showed him running away from the house around the time the 999 call was made.'Blood-curdling screams' as woman and man stabbed to death in Nottingham rampage before attacker hit three with vanMichelle Heeley KC said he had been "made to endure a life that no child should lead"."He had been deliberately and repeatedly assaulted, beaten, and put into and held under a cold bath as a punishment.
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