Mum's boyfriend, 25, to face retrial over death of toddler Alfie Lamb ‘who was crushed to death by a car seat’
A FORMER Tory minister's son will race a retrial over the death of a toddler who was allegedly crushed by a car seat.
Stephen Waterson, 25, from Croydon, is accused of twice reversing his chair into his lover's three-year-old son Alfie Lamb on February 1 last year.InstagramAlfie had been placed in the rear footwell of Waterson's Audi convertible on the way back from a shopping trip to Sutton, south London, the Old Bailey had heard.Last month, a jury failed to reach a verdict on whether Waterson, adopted son of Nigel Waterson, was guilty of Alfie's manslaughter.
He was found guilty of intimidating a witness, having earlier admitted conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by telling lies to police about what happened. Alfie's mother Adrian Hoare, 23, was cleared of manslaughter but found guilty of child cruelty and assaulting another witness, Emilie Williams, 19.
Both Hoare, from Gravesend, Kent, and Williams, of Croydon, had also admitted plotting to pervert the course of justice.Waterson attended via video link from Belmarsh jail while his lawyer Tana Adkin QC listened in by mobile phone on loud speaker in court due to an administrative oversight.He adjourned sentencing of all the defendants until the conclusion of Waterson's retrial.Alfie's mum Adrian hoare was found guilty of child cruelty in the previous trialor call 0207 782 4368.
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