A lying mother, Adrian Hoare, helped to kill her child and has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison. She is now out in the community, ready for another child and cutting hair near you.
Adrian Hoare, a 24-year-old hairdresser from Gravesend, Kent, was convicted of endangering her son, Alfie Lamb, by positioning him in the footwell of an Audi convertible.
Her boyfriend, Stephen Waterson, 25, from Croydon and adopted son of former Government Minister Nigel Waterson, was accused of crushing Alfie by reversing his car seat into him.
The Old Bailey was informed that Alfie had fainted during the return journey to Croydon from a shopping excursion in Sutton, south London, in February of the previous year. He succumbed in the hospital three days later.
After a trial, Adrian Hoare was convicted of child cruelty and assaulting Emilie Williams, who was present in the vehicle when Alfie sustained fatal injuries.
Adrian Hoare also confessed to conspiring to obstruct justice following her son’s demise. She lied about her whereabouts to try and protect her boyfriend, who had just helped her kill her son.
Waterson is scheduled for a retrial for Alfie’s manslaughter in September.
Mr Justice Kerr imprisoned Hoare for two years for cruelty plus eight months for perverting the course of justice and one month for assault, all consecutive.
He informed Adrian Hoare, “This is a profoundly unfortunate case.” You harboured no malice towards Alfie. You endangered him by permitting him to travel in the car’s footwell and allowed him to be suffocated without malice.
There was a component of intentional neglect towards Alfie’s well-being.
I cannot overlook your acknowledgement that you permitted him to travel in the footwell on numerous occasions.
He stated that Adrian Hoare neglected to inform paramedics and physicians about the incident and ought to have revealed “any information that could have assisted him.”
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