Mother blames ‘the system’ for killing of her son

The mother of a five year-old boy beaten to death by his step father for losing a shoe blamed ‘system failures’ for his death. Malcolm Iheanacho, 41, should have been in secure accommodation but he was free to murder Alex Malcolm in Mountsfield Park, Hither Green, southeast London, in November 2016. Iheanacho has previous convictions and in 2010 he dropped an eight-month-old baby he was holding as he threatened the child’s mother with a knife. He then punched her 13-year-old…