The wife of a celebrity photographer killed her son by suffocating him, the Old Bailey heard today. Olga Freeman, 40, allegedly put a sponge in 10-year-old Dylan's mouth and laid him down next to his toys in the master bedroom of her flat in Acton, west London, the court was told.
The court heard Freeman had struggled to care for Dylan in the six months before his death. Dylan suffered from a range of conditions including autism, it was said.
Joel Smith, prosecuting, said: "The cause of death was found to be restriction of the airways. "Parts of sponge were found within the throat of the deceased." Police found Dylan dead in the master bedroom at the £544,000 flat in Cumberland Park on Sunday after Russian national Freeman walked into a
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