Mother sentenced for campaign of cruelty against three-year-old son she murdered

A trial at Newcastle Crown Court heard she had deliberately immersed him in scalding water, causing severe burns that left him in agony.

Christina Robinson, who will be sentenced for murdering her three-year-old son Dwelaniyah Picture: Durham Police/PA

A mother who beat her three-year-old son with a bamboo cane after claiming the Bible advised the use of the rod will be sentenced on Friday for his murder.

Christina Robinson, 30, had exposed her boy Dwelaniyah to cruelty and excruciating pain over several weeks before she shook him to death at the family home in Bracken Court, Ushaw Moor, Durham, in November 2022.