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‘Devoted’ mum fatally drowned her son in the bath ‘to protect him from demons’

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A gran found her “floppy and lifeless” toddler grandson lying on the toilet floor after the child's mum had held him underwater in the bath, a court heard.

Natalie Steele, 32, told her mother and stepfather: “You’d better come upstairs” after plunging her two-year-old son Reid underwater during bath time at the family home.

Michael Jones QC said at Cardiff Crown Court that it was “quite clear the defendant had been mentally unwell for a number of months prior to the death of Reid”.

Steele, from Bridgend, who sat in the dock wearing a dark sweatshirt, admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility which was accepted by the Crown, according to Wales Online.

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