Alfie Steele’s killer mother and her career criminal boyfriend who tortured the schoolboy to death in a ‘cruel and sinister’ regime of abuse in lockdown have been jailed for slot gacor 27 years and 32 years respectively.
Little Alfie was in actions described by a judge today as ‘sadistic’.
Concerned neighbours and even passers-by in the street reported the treatment doled out by Dirk Howell, 41 and Alfie’s mother, Carla Scott, 35, to police, social services, the council and Alfie’s school.
But despite Alfie being on the radar of social services since he was a young boy, .
Howell was convicted of his murder yesterday and jailed for life today with a minimum term of 32 years.Scott was found guilty of manslaughter and handed jail sentences totaling 27 years at Coventry Crown Court.
A judge told the killers today: ‘What is clear is that Alfie did not have the quiet death that you tried to portray.His death was violent and brutal.
‘Alfie tried to say no, called in vain for his grandfather to help and resisted to get into the bath and maybe it was that resistance that sealed his fate.’
Alfie Steele died after his lifeless body was pulled from a bath having suffered more than 50 injuries at the hands of the evil mother and her partner in February 2021
Dirk Howell is pictured on police body-cam footage being arrested at a railway station shortly after Alfie’s death
Police video footage captured Carla Scott making a phone call to Howell to ask him where he was and tells him: ‘He’s gone up to hospital, they won’t let me go up there yet’
Jurors at Coventry Crown Court took ten hours and 13 minutes to find Scott (left) guilty of Alfie’s manslaughter, returning a majority verdict of 11 to one, but cleared her of murder.Howell (right) was found guilty of murder by a unanimous verdict