A mother accused of starving her
four-year-old son before beating him to death was an aggressive drunk
who threatened the boy's father with a knife, a court heard today.
Magdalena
Luczak, 27, and her partner Mariusz Krezolek, 33, of Coventry, are
accused of depriving Daniel Pelka, of food, force-feeding him salt and
locking him in a home-made prison.
The toddler was so skinny he
resembled a ‘concentration camp victim’ before he died from a head
injury in March 2012, Birmingham Crown Court was told.
Daniel's
biological father Eryk Pelka...