Liliya Breha says probation services did not warn her about partner who killed her son

The mother of a five-year-old boy who was murdered by her partner after probation services failed to warn her about his convictions for violent offences has told an inquest of her devastation over the loss of her “perfect” son.

At the opening of the inquest into the death of Alex Malcolm at Southwark coroner’s court on Monday, Liliya Breha said she had known that Marvyn Iheanacho had been in prison for several months but not the offences he had committed.