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Alfie Lamb: 'Car seat crush' death mum jailed | Alfie Lamb: 'Car seat crush' death mum jailed |
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The mother of a three-year-old boy allegedly crushed to death by a car seat has been jailed. | The mother of a three-year-old boy allegedly crushed to death by a car seat has been jailed. |
Adrian Hoare, from Gravesend, Kent, was found guilty of child cruelty after she placed Alfie Lamb in the footwell of an Audi convertible in south London in February last year. | |
Her boyfriend Stephen Waterson, 25, was accused of crushing Alfie by reversing the car seat into him. | Her boyfriend Stephen Waterson, 25, was accused of crushing Alfie by reversing the car seat into him. |
Hoare, 24, was sentenced to two years and nine months at the Old Bailey. | |
She was cleared of manslaughter but admitted perverting the course of justice and was convicted of assaulting Emilie Williams, who was in the car at the time. | |
A jury failed to reach a verdict on a manslaughter charge for Mr Waterson, from Croydon. He is due to face a retrial in September. | |
The trial had heard how Alfie had collapsed on the journey back to Croydon from a shopping trip to Sutton on 1 February 2018 and died in hospital three days later. | |
Sentencing her, Mr Justice Kerr told Hoare: "There was an element of deliberate disregard for Alfie's welfare. | |
"I cannot ignore your own admission that you had allowed him to travel in the footwell many times." |
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