Mother ‘would not have risked boy’s life’

A mother accused of allowing her three-year-old son to be crushed to death in her boyfriend’s Audi had no idea she was risking his life by putting him in the footwell, a court heard. Stephen Waterson, 25, the adopted son of a Tory cabinet minister, deliberately rammed his seat against Alfie Lamb when the boy would not stop crying, it is claimed. His mother Adrian Hoare, 23, allegedly risked Alfie’s life by placing him on the floor behind the seat…