A mother’s ex-boyfriend has been jailed for the manslaughter of her young son, as she was imprisoned for allowing him to be physically abused.

Scott O’Connor, 36, was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment and a five-year extended licence period, and the boy’s mother, Zoe Coutts, 35, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment.

Kol Page was subjected to escalating violence while in the couple’s care in April 2022, and died aged four in June 2024 as a result of the injuries he sustained two years earlier.

Prosecutors said the injuries inflicted on Kol by O’Connor 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.

Passing sentence at Southwark Crown Court, Mr Justice Johnson said O’Connor had carried out a “deliberate intentional assault” on an “innocent and defenceless two-year-old boy”.

The judge told him: “You struck a two-year-old child with sufficient force to tear internal tissues and cause catastrophic bleeding.

“You have shown no remorse, no insight and no acceptance of responsibility.”

Sentencing Coutts, the judge told her: “You must have known that the injuries were inflicted by Scott O’Connor.

“Instead of protecting Kol from O’Connor, you continued to live with him.

“Instead of taking Kol to receive the medical attention that he so obviously needed, you went to watch a football match with Scott O’Connor.”

The judge told the pair: “Each of you continues to deny responsibility, each blames the other.

“Neither of you has shown any remorse.”

This video has been edited to remove disturbances from the public gallery.

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