8 years ago
Monday, January 7, 2013
Mother jailed for minimum of 17 years for beating seven-year-old son to d***th with a stick because he couldn't recite Koran
A woman who beat her son to death for failing to learn parts of the Koran by heart and burned his body to destroy the evidence has been jailed for life today.
Sara Ege, 33, dressed in brown, with a matching headscarf, collapsed as the sentence was delivered at Cardiff Crown Court.
She had to be helped from the dock as she was told she would serve a minimum of 17 years.
She had been praised as a 'brilliant mother' to seven-year-old Yaseen but was convicted of his murder by a jury at the same court last month.
Sara Ege told a confusing and contradictory series of stories to explain how her son met his death.
She began by playing the role of a heart broken parent mourning the tragic death of a much-loved son in a house blaze.
When it emerged that Yaseen was dead before the blaze was ever set, investigations began to uncover a history of violent abuse.
Within weeks of his death Ege made a chillingly frank confession detailing the extent of the beatings her son suffered at her hands.
She told how she beat Yaseen with such little provocation that she made frequent secret vows with herself to refrain from hurting him.
Well intentioned as they may have been, the vows were discarded within a few days and the violent beatings he suffered would restart.
Ege described her son collapsing at home on the day of his death while still murmuring extracts from the Koran.
The jury watched the grim video confession in silence during the trial. Ege herself was excused by the judge and was not present in court.
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