A woman who shook a one-year-old baby she was hoping to adopt to death after she ‘lost it’ over his crying has today been found guilty of murder.
Laura Castle killed 13-month-old Leiland-James Corkill less than five months after council officials had placed him into her care.
The 38-year-old former care worker, from Barrow, Cumbria, was trying to formally adopt the youngster at the time.
However council workers became concerned – enough to consider removing him from her care – after she said she was struggling to bond with the child.
The youngster died in January 2021 after suffering brain injuries at the home of Laura and her partner Scott Castle.
Police later found texts on her phone in which she had described the youngster as a ‘k**bhead’ and a ‘whingebag’.
Though Castle originally denied any involvement in little Leiland-James’s death, she later admitted started shaking the youngster because she ‘wanted him to stop crying’.
She admitted responsibility for the youngster’s death, but…
