Mother and lesbian lover ‘murdered her two-year-old son and blamed it on 7-year-old boy’

A mother accused of murdering her two-year-old son alongside her lesbian lover blamed the tot’s death on a seven-year-old boy, a court has heard.

Nyomi Fee, 28, and her civil partner Rachel Trelfa or Fee, 31, are also charged with a catalogue of assault, cruelty and neglect charges involving three children in their care, including the dead toddler.

Trelfa and Fee went on trial at the High Court in Livingston yesterday.

It is alleged that before Liam’s death in Fife on March 2014 they taped socks to his hands and left him in a darkened room, failing to provide him with adequate exercise or physical and mental stimulation.

The women are accused of a catalogue of allegations of wilfully ill-treating and neglecting two other young boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, over a period of more than two years.

The pair allegedly bound one boy’s arms and legs to a cot and on one occasion put a cage filled with rats on his head.

They also allegedly forced him to eat his own excrement and dog excrement, put soap in his mouth and forced his hand into Liam’s mouth after he had died.

In relation to the second boy, they allegedly threatened to cut his penis off with a saw and rubbed his face in soiled underwear.

The pair are accused of falsely telling others, including police, that one of the boys – a seven-year-old – was responsible for Liam’s death.

The couple face eight separate charges.

The murder charge alleges that they assaulted Liam at a house in Fife, on various occasions between March 15 and March 22, 2014.

Trelfa and Fee repeatedly inflicted “blunt force trauma to his head and body” causing injuries so severe that he died on March 22 that year, it is claimed.

Between that date and April 30 2014, the two are said to have taken steps to avoid detection, arrest and prosecution, thereby attempting to defeat the ends of justice.

That charge includes an allegation that they falsely told emergency services workers, police and friends and family that one of the young boys they are accused of neglecting was responsible for Liam’s death.

Trelfa and Fee deny all the charges against them.

-UK Mirror