A mother who murdered her son for failing to learn passages of the Koran

A mother who murdered her son for failing to learn passages of the Koran by heart was jailed for life yesterday.

Sara Ege, 33, beat seven-year-old Yaseen to death and then burned his body in an attempt to destroy the evidence.

Yesterday she sobbed and collapsed in the dock as she was told she will spend a minimum of 17 years in prison for the killing.

Afterwards Yaseen’s father and  teachers paid tribute to a ‘beautiful’ and ‘happy’ boy.

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Ege had previously blamed her husband for their son’s death. But a jury found her to be solely responsible for Yaseen’s death after she admitted beating him ‘like a dog’.

 The court heard that Ege had become obsessed with her child’s apparent inability to learn entire tracts of the Koran which he was taught after school at a mosque.

 On the day he died, the popular schoolboy had been due to go to a teddy bear’s picnic but did not attend because his mother wanted him to spend more time on the Koran.

 After he died, Ege, who had been beating her child for the previous three months, set fire to the family home in Cardiff, and it was thought the boy had died in the blaze.

 It later emerged that Yaseen had died before the flames took hold, and his mother was arrested on suspicion of his murder.