Jury Considers Verdicts in Trial of Mother and Partner Accused of Murdering Nine-Year-Old Son

…By Henry George for TDPel Media.

Carla Scott and Dirk Howell are facing charges related to the death of Alfie Steele, who prosecutors allege was subjected to severe physical abuse and held down in a bath as part of a cruel and sinister regime of correction.

The prosecution argued that the boy had suffered approximately 50 injuries all over his body, with only a few likely to be attributed to normal childhood accidents.