A mother and her partner have been found guilty of killing the woman's nine-year-old son.
Alfie Steele was repeatedly assaulted, beaten and put in a cold bath as part of a cruel and “sinister” regime of correction by his mum Carla Scott and her partner Dirk Howell in Droitwich, Worcestershire, a court heard.
Scott, 35, has now been found guilty of his manslaughter while Howell, 41, has been convicted of Alfie's murder.
