Mum of crushed boy ‘failed him’

A mother accused of allowing her three-year-old son to be crushed to death by her boyfriend’s car seat failed him ‘fundamentally and fatally’, a court heard. Stephen Waterson, 25, the adopted son of a Tory cabinet minister, deliberately rammed his seat of his Audi A4 against him Alfie Lamb because the boy would not stop crying, it is claimed. His mother Adrian Hoare, 23, allegedly risked Alfie’s life by placing him in the footwell behind the front seats. Alfie died…