A mum and her partner have been found guilty of killing her nine-year-old son after a sinister campaign of violence against him.
Defenceless schoolboy Alfie Steele was beaten and held down in a bath as a punishment at his home in Droitwich, Worcestershire, in February 2021, prior to his death.
Carla Scott and fiancé Dirk Howell subjected the boy to repeated assaults and would often force him into cold baths as part of a cruel and "sinister" regime of correction.
