Jake Drummond, 33, who used cocaine and smoked up to 15 cannabis spliffs a day , fatally shook and hit little Jacob Lennon on August 27 2019, leaving him with a face ‘like a panda’, the Old Bailey heard. In the weeks before the murder, Jacob suffered yet more injuries to his face, body and genitals while the boy’s mother Louise Lennon, 32, failed to stop it. Following a trial, Drummond was found guilty of murder and wounding Jacob with intent, while Lennon, 32, was convicted of causing or allowing the death of a child having earlier admitted child cruelty. Five days before the killing, Drummond sent Lennon a sinister message saying he was putting Jacob into the ‘torture chamber’, in reference to his bedroom.
