November 14, 2019
A serial domestic abuser has been jailed for seven years and six months after admitting crushing his girlfriend’s son with a car seat. 
Alfie Lamb: Arrogant Stephen Waterson Jailed Over Car Seat Death
Stephen Waterson, 26, the son of a former government minister, repeatedly tried to absolve himself of blame after three-year-old Alfie Lamb was crushed to death by his car seat while lying in the back seat footwell of Waterson’s Audi convertible on February 15 last year.
Waterson, described by police as being “arrogant, selfish and deeply unpleasant”, subsequently sought to distance himself from the death and lying to police as the prospect of a conviction loomed.
Sentencing Waterson to five years and six months for the manslaughter of Alfie, Mr Justice Kerr said: “I do not find you were annoyed with Alfie and moved your seat back because of that annoyance.”But he said he was satisfied he moved his car seat back twice “for your own comfort”.
He accepted character references from Waterson’s parents, who attended court, and agreed he was “not all bad”.
But he added he was “cunning, manipulative, threatening, and controlling”.
He handed Waterson a further two years for intimidation and 18 months for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice to run concurrently with each other.
Alfie’s mother, Adrian Hoare, 24, from Gravesend in Kent, has already been found guilty of child cruelty and jailed for two years and nine months at the Old Bailey.
Jurors were initially unable to reach a verdict on Waterson’s culpability, but he subsequently changed his plea to guilty to manslaughter by gross negligence on the day of his retrial.
Both Waterson and Hoare had admitted conspiring to pervert the course of justice by lying to police.
Waterson was also convicted of intimidating a witness and Hoare of assaulting another witness.
It is the first time anyone in the UK has died from crush asphyxiation as a result of an electronic car seat, police said.
Pregnant Emilie Williams, 20, who admitted lying to police about how Alfie died, wept as she was sentenced to five months imprisonment suspended for 18 months and 100 hours of unpaid work, to be completed after she gives birth.
The court heard the defendants had gone shopping for cushions in Sutton, accompanied by Alfie, Williams, Marcus Lamb, 22, and another young child.
Jurors in the earlier trial were shown CCTV of Alfie running to keep up with his mother moments before he was put in the car for the journey back to Croydon, south London.
The court had heard how nightclub worker Waterson became annoyed at Alfie’s crying and moved his front passenger seat into him as he sat at his mother’s feet. The maximum space in the foot well was 30cm, and, at the touch of a button, that could be reduced to just 9.5cm.
When Alfie continued to moan, Waterson reversed again saying: “I won’t be told what to do by a three-year-old,” Hoare told jurors.
By the time they arrived at Waterson’s home in Croydon, the boy had collapsed and stopped breathing. As medics desperately tried to revive him, Waterson fled the scene and Hoare spun a web of lies to protect her boyfriend, claiming she had been in a taxi.
Alfie, nicknamed “Little Tarzan” by the defendants, died from crush asphyxia three days later.
As police closed in, Waterson gave officers a false name and false statement, and sold the Audi.
He threatened to make Hoare and the other witnesses “disappear” if they did not stick with their fake stories.
Hoare eventually broke her silence and told her half-sister Ashleigh Jeffrey what happened in a taped conversation handed to police.
But Waterson blamed Lamb, who he regarded as a step brother, for being a “grass” and put his foot on his head during a violent assault in Crystal Palace Park which was filmed on his mobile phone.
Jurors in the first trial were told Waterson was a controlling womaniser who had a violent temper, with three previous convictions for attacking an ex-girlfriend and his sister’s husband.
Giving evidence earlier this year, he denied he would hurt a child and said he moved his seat back once by up to an inch.
Waterson’s father Nigel was first elected MP for Eastbourne in 1992 and was a junior minister in John Major’s government, but was defeated by Liberal Democrat Stephen Lloyd at the 2010 general election.Related... Alfie Lamb Death: Man Admits Manslaughter Of Boy, 3, Crushed By Car Seat Mother Of Toddler Crushed By Car Seat Jailed For 2 Years Mother Found Guilty Of Child Cruelty After Son Died In Car Seat Crush Three-Year-Old Boy Died After Man Had 'Fit Of Childish Temper', Court Told
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