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Philip Dewey & Peter Diamond

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Devoted mum fatally drowned her son in the bath to protect him from demons - The Untold Story

A gran found her “floppy and lifeless” toddler grandson lying on the toilet floor after the child's mum had held him underwater in the bath, a court heard.

Natalie Steele, 32, told her mother and stepfather: “You’d better come upstairs” after plunging her two-year-old son Reid underwater during bath time at the family home.

Michael Jones QC said at Cardiff Crown Court that it was “quite clear the defendant had been mentally unwell for a number of months prior to the death of Reid”.

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