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In early August 2020 a neighbours Ring doorbell captured Dirk Howell, 41, and his girlfriend and Alfies mother Carla Scott, 35, walking up to the house.

Carla Scott, 35, and Dirk Howell, 41, killed little Alfie after months of harrowing abuse during the third national Covid lockdown at the home they shared in Droitwich, Worcestershire.

Alfie Steele was found unresponsive at his home in Droitwich, Worcestershire, in February 2021. Dirk Howell, 41, was found guilty of murdering the young boy and his mother, Carla Scott, was convicted of manslaughter.

The trial of Carla Scott and Dirk Howell heard that after his mother met Howell, Alfie "suffered assaults and cruelty, by being beaten, assaulted, punished with cold water and made to endure a life that no child should lead".

Alfie Steele was beaten, held in cold bath water, locked out of the house or in a shed and whipped with belts during a cruel and sinister regime of correction and abuse.

The voice on the video, played in court to a jury, was that of Alfie Steele - who died aged just nine at his home in Droitwich, Worcestershire, in February 2021, with over 50 injuries on his body.

Alfie Steele was found lifeless in the bath and had suffered more than 50 different injuries.

Alfie Steele, nine (pictured), died in February 2021 from more than 50 different injuries after his lifeless body was found in the bath.

Carla Scott and Dirk Howell are on trial for the murder of Alfie Steele at Coventry Crown Court.

Carla Scott and Dirk Howell are on trial for the murder of Alfie Steele at Coventry Crown Court.