Alfie Steele: Couple found guilty over murder of 9-year-old who was put in cold bath as punishment

A mother and her partner have been found guilty over the killing of her nine-year-old son following a series of assaults. Carla Scott and her partner, Dirk Howell have been convicted at Coventry Crown Court of the manslaughter of her nine-year-old son, Alfie Steele at their home in Worcestershire.

Alfie Steele was repeatedly beaten and assaulted and was put in a cold bath as a punishment prior to his death in February 2021, the trial heard. Both Scott and Howell had denied Alfie was “dunked” in the water as part of a “sinister” regime of correction at his mum’s address in Droitwich.