Mother 'beat son, 7, to death then set fire to his body' because he struggled to learn the Koran off by heart

Beaten: Yaseen Ali, seven, was beaten by his mother for falling behind with his Islamic studies, a court heard

Accused: An artist's sketch of Sara Ege, who is accused of beating her son to death and setting fire to his body, on trial at Cardiff Crown Court

Funeral: Cardiff Crown Court has heard Ege grew increasingly frustrated with her seven-year-old son for failing to learn passages from the Koran

• Sara Ege, 32, is accused of beating her son Yaseen to death because he was struggling with his Islamic studies, then setting fire to his body

• The boy's death was treated as an accident until a post-mortem examination revealed Yaseen died before the blaze broke out at the family home in Cardiff

• Cardiff Crown Court was told Ege beat Yaseen with a stick and a hammer and locked him in a shed when he failed to recite Koran passages

• The 32-year-old denies murdering her son and burning his body to destroy the evidence.

Source: DAILY MAIL