5-year-old boy dies after he was brutally beaten by his mother's boyfriend for losing his shoe in the park
A five-year-old child was brutally murdered by his mother's boyfriend, an inquest was made aware. The little boy had said that he wanted his "mummy and daddy" back together before he was killed.
The child's mother, Liliya Breha had claimed that probation officers had not warned her that her violent boyfriend Marvyn Iheanacho was banned from contacting children. Iheanacho, who has a history of physical abuse, was responsible for fatally attacking her son Alex Malcolm. Iheanacho will be serving a life sentence for the murder of little Alex who died from severe injuries to his head and stomach. The tragic incident occurred after the man flew into a violent rage because the child lost his shoe in the park at Catford, southeast London in 2016.
According to witness reports, the brutal blows sounded like two grown men fighting. As reported by DailyMail, senior coroner Dr. Andrew Harris shared, "This occurred about eight times and sounded to one witness as somebody was throwing metal items in a skip." Alex passed away around two days after Iheanacho had lifted the child's limp body and taken him to his mother's house in Beckenham. Upon reaching there, Iheanacho then beat up Breha and forced her to lie to the authorities. Alex was only given medical care after he turned blue around two hours after the horrific attack. His head, neck, and body were covered with bruises after the attack on November 20 in 2016.
Iheanacho had beat up the child only six months after he was released on license from prison and it was not the first time that the boy had been subjected to such beatings at his hands. A report in the Evening Standard refers to a certain diary entry where Alex's 'Daddy Mills'(how the boy knew him) admitted beating the boy. It read: "Do I really love Alex, five years old small cute lil boy. Who want nothing more, than daddy mills to love him protect him but most of all keep him from harm - even though I had to beat him just now for sicking up in the cab - why why why I say - so the answer is yes yes yes I love him and like with all my heart but may not enough."
Starting from 2001, Iheanacho had been a regular at prison for beating up former girlfriends. The Southwark Coroner's Court was also told how Iheanacho would often use dating sites to target single mothers with children even though he had been banned from having any unsupervised contact with children below the age of 16. Breha has called out and slammed a probation officer for having no 'common sense' after they did not tell her about Iheanacho's license conditions. She had started dating him in June 2016.
She also recalled that a female probation officer had been very lenient about rearranging appointments. Breha shared, "She didn't ask if I had any kids or if he stayed with me or anything like that. I heard how he spoke to her on the phone and he was never forced to come to his appointment. I can see how lenient they were with him, and it never struck me that there were any serious issues with him." She revealed that she had met Iheanacho through a neighbor and they had written to each other while he was in prison. She said she didn't remember him ever hitting her son before the fatal attack. She said she later found a notebook of Iheanacho a month after the killing, which detailed how 'fake' he had been. Breha said: "I just remember finding the notebook. He was just really fake and manipulative and lying and I just don't think he was nice to Alex behind my back."
Iheanacho's list of offenses had been read in court by the coroner and they included him punching a girlfriend aged 19, striking another with a hammer, punching a girlfriend unconscious in 2012 because she refused to lend a phone, breaking her jaw. He also throttled a partner in 2014 and in 2015 was jailed for whipping a girlfriend and grabbing her by the throat. The five-year-old boy's mother later told of her horror when she only found out about his convictions and prison license by accident after he was convicted at Woolwich Crown Court in July 2017.