A woman has been jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years for the murder of a one-year-old boy she was planning to adopt.
Laura Castle, 38, along with her husband Scott, 35, received Leiland-James Corkill under their care by Cumbrian authorities for less than five months before he died from catastrophic head injuries. Leiland-James was a "looked-after child" who was taken into care at birth before he was approved to live with his potential adoptive parents from August 2020.
However, on the morning of January 6 last year, Laura Castle had called for an ambulance to report that Leiland-James had fallen off the sofa and injured his head - he was struggling to breathe. The young boy tragically died the following day while hospital medics raised concerns over Laura's account of the incident.
