Sara Ege, 33, a mathematics graduate from India, treated her son Yaseen like a "dog", beating him with a stick when he failed to memorise religious texts, Cardiff Crown Court in Wales heard.
Yaseen died in July 2010. It was initially thought that he had been killed in a fire at the family home in Pontcanna, Cardiff, but tests later revealed that he was dead before the blaze began.
Ege denied killing her son, instead blaming her husband. Yousef Ege, 38, was cleared of failing to prevent the death of his son. She confessed to the murder, but later retracted the confession saying she had been forced into it by a threat of violence from her husband and his family.....continue reading
