Alfie Lamb's mum blames ex for three-year-old's car crush death as she's freed after less than HALF her sentence

A SHAMELESS mum who was jailed after her three-year-old son was crushed to death by her ex-boyfriend has blamed the tot's death all on her ex-partner.

Adrian Hoare – who has been released from jail after serving less than half her sentence – claims Stephen Waterson, 26, is entirely responsible for killing little Alfie Lamb after ramming him with a car seat in February, 2018.

Hoare, 24, was handed a two-year, nine-month sentence for child cruelty and assault with Waterson jailed for more than seven years for manslaughter in November.

She says she put Alfie on her lap for the drive home, but claims he became scared when Waterson started to lose his temper and went into the footwell crying.

The couple were travelling from a shopping trip home to Croydon, South London, in Waterson’s Audi A4 when Alfie was fatally hurt.

But now Hoare has tried to swerve any blame for Alfie's death and has pinned it all on Waterson.

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Hoare told MailOnline: "To me, he's the one that moved the chair. In my head, I blame him more for what's happened.

"I was trying to get him to move the chair. I couldn't have moved the chair myself.

"He should've been in a seat, but where Stephen had kicked off and we knew we weren't going to get him to calm down, we got in the car just to stop him having a go at us.

"I blame it entirely on Stephen. I wouldn't say it's me that caused it to happen."

I blame it entirely on Stephen. I wouldn't say it's me that caused it to happen

Hoare was released from HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Surrey, on October 11 after serving just five months of her sentence over Alfie's death.

Jurors heard how Waterson become annoyed at Alfie's crying and twice moved his front passenger seat into him as he sat at his mother's feet.

Terrified Alfie screamed for his "mummy" but Hoare just slapped him and told him to "shut up".

Waterson then said "I'm not being told what to do by a three-year-old" before slamming the chair back again.

By the time they arrived home, the boy, who had previously travelled in the footwell, had collapsed and stopped breathing.

Hoare said: "Stephen had decided he wanted to go into town. I had Alfie with me and I said I wasn't going to go with them.

"Stephen started kicking off and wouldn't let us get a bus – we had to go with him.

"I just put him on my lap in the car. Stephen got moody and he started shouting and it scared Alfie, and where Alfie was on my lap, he dropped down in between my legs.

"That's when Stephen moved the chair back. When we told him to stop, he moved it back again and he was shouting at Alfie because he started crying again.

"I couldn't move the chair to get him out."

Hoare and Waterson cooked up a web of lies to cover their tracks after Alfie's death – with Waterson threatening to "get rid" of anyone who revealed the truth.

Waterson initially denied killing Alfie, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter before being for seven years and nine months.

Hoare's mum Janis Templeton-Hoare hopes Waterson"rots in prison" and said she will never forgive her daughter.

Despite being jailed over her son's death, Hoare insists she loved Alfie.

But she branded Waterson "horrible" and said Alfie's death had "destroyed my life".

Hoare said: "It's not a nice thing to sit and read about someone, but it's not like he was mistreated or something horrible was happening to him all the time, because it wasn't.

"I'm not saying I thought it was OK, but it was easier to get in the car with Alfie on my lap or on my seat.

"If he would ask for something then I would do it for him. I feel like I did enough for him as a mum."

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