TA soldier faces life sentence for battering two year old to death

A former Territorial Army corporal who battered his partner’s young son to death after texting her to say ‘slap him back to sleep lol’ is facing a life sentence. Scott O’Connor, 36, repeatedly assaulted two-year-old Kol Page after meeting his mother, Zoe Coutts, 35, on the dating app Bumble. Kol was left severely brain damaged after the savage beating in April 2022 and died two years later. O’Connor and Coutts were both accused of inflicting ‘catastrophic’ injuries on Kol and…