Foster mum who murdered baby boy she wanted to adopt jailed for 18 years A foster mother who killed a baby she was hoping to adopt has been jailed for 18 years. Laura Castle, 38, was found guilty of murdering 13-month-old Leiland-James Corkill whom she battered to death. The child was placed in the care of Castle and her husband, Scott, 35, in August 2020. But five months after, on January 6, 2021, paramedics found the baby unresponsive at the couple’s home in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. He died the following day after doctors found his heart had stopped beating and he had a head injury, which Castle claimed was from him falling off a sofa. But further investigation found that the foster mum had searched online for what might cause a bleed on the brain while the child was being attended to in the hospital. The truth about what happened started to come out when a post-mortem confirmed the toddler had suffered a traumatic head injury, which wasn’t an accident. ...