The family of Reid Steele have paid tribute to the "loving little boy" who was killed by his mother who was suffering from a severe mental illness. The two-year-old was killed by Natalie Steele who held him underwater in the bath of her home in Bridgend.
Steele, 32, was detained under sections 37 and 41 of the Mental Health Act on Tuesday after a sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court heard she was suffering from psychosis and believed demons were trying to harm her and Reid. Upon returning from a camping trip to her home on August 11 last year she believed her family had "demons within them" and she believed they had "big eyes and contorted faces".
The defendant took her son upstairs to give him a bath but came downstairs and told her mother and stepfather: "You'd better come upstairs". They were confronted by the horrifying sight of Reid lying on the floor with his eyes wide open and his body lifeless.
