Mum guilty of failing to protect son from killer boyfriend

The mother of an 18-month-old boy wept as a judge warned her she faces jail for failing to protect him from the boyfriend who battered him to death. Tamika Beaton, 25, turned a blind eye to the sickening abuse inflicting on Andrew Cawker by postman Scott Coombe, 24, in the months leading up to the toddler’s death. Andrew suffered a head injury on 9 July 2019 and died in hospital 13 days later. Coombe, of Petts Wood, Kent, often attacked…