"Many Photos" - Boyfriend gave police false name after he crushed Alfie Lamb to death

A man who deliberately crushed a three-year-old to death gave police a false name when they found the boy's lifeless body, a court heard today. 

Stephen Waterson is accused of deliberately pushing his seat back against Alfie Lamb who was sitting in the rear footwell of an Audi A4 convertible. 

The 25-year-old is said to have repeatedly lied afterwards in a bid to cover up the crime, but told the Old Bailey he 'panicked' when officers arrived on the scene in Croydon, south London. 

Waterson told police Alfie had been injured in a taxi and he was an innocent witness who was simply 'driving past'. 

Stephen Waterson is accused of deliberately ramming his seat back against Alfie Lamb

Adrian Hoare, 23, allegedly put Alfie in the footwell and did nothing to help him as he screamed out for her

The Audi convertible car in which three-year-old Alfie Lamb is alleged to have been crushed while in the rear footwell behind the front passenger seat

Alfie's mother Adrian Hoare, 23, allegedly put her son in the footwell and 'did nothing to help him' as he screamed out for her, the court has heard.  

Alfie died three days after suffering a cardiac arrest

Alfie died three days after suffering a cardiac arrest outside the home he shared with the couple in Croydon, south London.

Waterson also insisted he had no idea how Alfie came to be fatally injured in the back seat of the Audi and claims he has been ‘horribly framed.’

He said he did not ram the seat against Alfie because he was crying.

‘I didn’t move that seat back to deliberately hurt him,’ he told the jury.

‘I understand what they are saying but it didn’t happen. I was asked once to move it forward and I moved it forward.

‘I take responsibility along with everyone else in that car that he shouldn’t have been in the footwell of that car.’

Asked how Alfie had died, Waterson said: ‘This is what I want to find out as well. It was not the chair going back.’ 

After the incident he called 999 claiming he was an innocent witness who was ‘literally driving past.’ 

A court sketch of Adrian Hoare and Stephen Waterson from their trial at the Old Bailey on January 21

Waterson and Hoare lied repeatedly after the event and assaulted the two other passengers in an attempt to cover up their crime, the Old Bailey has heard.

Waterson told jurors that he lied to police because he was worried that he would get in trouble because the driver of the car, Marcus Lamb, had been disqualified.

Defence counsel Tana Adkin QC asked Waterson how Alfie felt when he pulled him out of the car.

He said: 'When I picked him up his body was heavy, his legs... his body sort of flopped down - they were just hanging down.

'I tried to wake Alfie up, at first I thought he was joking around. Sometimes we play games but I soon realised there was something up. I just tried to get him to wake up. I was trying to do CPR, nothing was working.'

Waterson, who appeared in court carrying a white crucifix, said he originally gave police the name Alex Richardson.

He told the court: 'At the time I panicked. At that time the police spoke to me, they asked me 'do I know what happened' and I spoke to them and at first I said "no."

'Marcus didn't want to admit being the driver. I didn't want to be the driver because I thought it was something to do with allowing the children to be in the footwell.

'I didn't want to take Marcus' place as being the driver. ' 

Waterson told jurors that he lied to police because he was worried that he would get in trouble because the driver of the car, Marcus Lamb, had been disqualified

Waterson is accused of ramming his seat back (pictured) into Alfie, crushing him against the back seat 

The QC asked: 'Did you think Alfie should have been in the footwell of a car?'

'No,' replied Waterson.

Hoare and Waterson, from Croydon, south London, deny manslaughter.

She also denies charges of child cruelty for placing Alfie in the footwell and common assault on Ms Williams on February 14.

Waterson also denies intimidating Marcus Lamb, also known as Marcus Richardson, on 15 February.

But Hoare and Waterson, have admitted perverting the course by submitting false statements to police.

The trial continues.

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