Woman goes on trial for murder of toddler she was trying to adopt

A woman has gone on trial accused of murdering the baby boy she and her husband were planning to adopt.

A jury at Preston crown court were read text messages between the couple, apparently regretting the adoption a month after his arrival. “He’s an absolute moaning winge bag and I totally regret doin this. I‘m goin to lose my mind,” Laura, 38, messaged Scott, on 23 September. Opening the case on Thursday, the prosecution barrister, Michael Brady, QC, said Leiland-James was a “robust and resilient child” who had been taken into care at his birth on 21 December 2019.

But unbeknown to social services, the court heard, she was assaulting the little boy within five weeks of his arrival. “I’ve just absolutely leathered him, I can[’t] take this any more, he’s gonna have to go,” Laura told Scott in a text on 24 September.

Poor kid!

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