Adrian Hoare and Stephen Waterson were a couple. Hoare was the parent of a boy named Alfie Lamb, who was crushed by Waterson in 2018.
Waterson deliberately forced his car seat back against Lamb and crushing him in the process, while Hoare started to verbally abuse him by telling him to "Shut Up". Alfie would end up passing away three years after the incident due to an cardiac arrest he had suffered in the process.
Hoare and Waterson had also attacked other accompaniments of the car in the process,