Former TA corporal jailed for battering toddler to death

A former Territorial Army corporal who battered his partner’s toddler to death after telling her ‘slap him back to sleep’ has been jailed for 18 years. Scott O’Connor, 36, repeatedly assaulted two-year-old Kol Page after meeting his mother, Zoe Coutts, 35, on the dating app Bumble in late 2021. Kol was left severely brain damaged after the savage beating in April 2022 and died two years later aged four. O’Connor and Coutts were both accused of inflicting ‘catastrophic’ injuries on…