‘Mother tried to cover for baby killer’

A mother tried to cover for her boyfriend after he killed her baby, the Old Bailey heard. Sophie Crowther, 21, is accused of lying to police about how nine-month-old Albie (corr) Johnson died. Her lover Mitchell Gibbs, 27, killed her son between 5 and 7 October 2018, prosecutors claim. The mother, from Bethnal Green, east London, did not enter pleas to three counts of cruelty to a person under 16, or to one charge of perverting the course justice. But…