'Pure evil' stepmum 'snapped' and murdered four-year-old boy: Killer faces life in jail for weeks-long abuse of child who died covered in bruises as mother condemns 'betrayal' of father and his new partner ⊖⊖⊖

The woman, in her 30s and from the southwest of the country, pleaded guilty to the boy's murder on the fourth day of her trial at the Central Criminal Court last year.