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Kieren Williams

Mum let 'sadistic' boyfriend murder her baby son as they joked about 'torture'

A mum let her "sadistic" boyfriend murder her baby son after a campaign of terror as they joked about putting the 15-month-old in a "torture chamber".

Former caretaker Jake Drummond has been found guilty at the Old Bailey of murdering his girlfriend's son, Jacob Lennon, whilst mum Louise Lennon was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child having earlier admitted child cruelty.

The baby was the victim of a campaign of “torture” at the hands of the 33-year-old who left him so badly beaten he could barely see and with such bad black eyes he resembled a "panda", the court heard.

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