A woman’s ex-boyfriend has been jailed for the manslaughter of her young son, while she was imprisoned for allowing the death of her child.

Kol Page was subjected to escalating violence while in the couple’s care in April 2022.

He died, aged four, in June 2024 as a result of his injuries.

Scott O’Connor, 36, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Friday to 18 years’ imprisonment and a five-year extended licence period.

Kol’s mother Zoe Coutts, 35, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Prosecutors earlier said that Kol’s “catastrophic” injuries were of the force “seen in a serious road traffic accident or a fall from a height onto a hard object”.

Jurors cleared the couple of murder but convicted Coutts of causing or allowing the death of a child, and O’Connor, her boyfriend at the time, of manslaughter.

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