A judge today called a disabled boy who was suffocated with a sponge by his mother during the first coronavirus lockdown an indirect victim of the pandemic as she was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order.
Russian national Olga Freeman, 40, killed her autistic 10-year-old son Dylan and laid his body down next to his toys in the master bedroom of her £544,000 flat in Acton, West London, in August of last year.
The boy s father, celebrity photographer Dean Freeman, was in Spain at the time of his son s killing. The couple, married in 2011, had been divorced a number of years , according to Mr Freeman s agent.