Mother ‘killed disabled son with a sponge’

The Russian wife of a celebrity photographer killed her disabled son by suffocating him with a sponge, the Old Bailey heard. Olga Freeman, 40, allegedly rammed the sponge in 10-year-old Dylan’s mouth and laid him down next to his toys in the master bedroom of her flat in Acton, west London. The court heard Freeman had struggled to care for Dylan in the six months before his death. Dylan suffered from a range of conditions including autism, it was said….

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