Woman accused of attacking baby with toy racquet

A mother beat a baby with a toy tennis racquet a court heard. Katie Neale, 34, allegedly flew into a rage and hit the infant in the face at the home she shared with Nicholas Bass, 54, in Holloway, north London. She hit the baby so hard that an impression of the toy was left imprinted on his back, it is claimed. Neale is charged with causing the boy ‘unnecessary suffering’ by ‘assaulting, mistreating or neglecting’ him between June and…