Sara Ege,the mum who beat her son to death for failing to memorize Qur’an quickly has been jailed for life

Sara Ege, the cruel mother who beat her son to death for failing to memorize the Koran has been jailed for life and will serve a minimum of 17 years.
Sara Ege  burned the body of her 7 year old son Yaseen before trying to claim he died in a house fire.
But a murder trial heard she treated little Yaseen like a “dog” and repeatedly beat him with a stick for failing to memorise religious texts quickly enough.
Ege collapsed as the sentence was delivered at Cardiff Crown Court and had to be helped, trembling and sobbing, from the dock.
She had been praised as a “brilliant mother” to seven-year-old Yaseen but was convicted of his murder by a jury at the same court last month.
Passing sentence trial judge Mr Justice Wyn Williams told Ege: “What was your motive for acting as you did? I am satisfied that, on the day of his death, Yaseen was kept home from school so that he could dedicate himself to his (Koran) studies.
“On that day Yaseen must have failed in some way because I am satisfied that it was that failure which was the trigger for the beating.
“That is what you told the police in the course of your confession in July 2010 and I see no reason to doubt what you then said was true.”
Ege was found guilty of the murder of her son by a jury at Cardiff Crown Court last month.
The schoolboy had suffered multiple injuries to his body and died in July 2010 from internal injuries caused by three months of punishing beatings.His death was treated as a terrible tragedy in the aftermath of the blaze but it was quickly found he was dead before it started.Ege accused husband Yousef Ege, 38, who stood trial with his wife, of being a violent bully who beat her and was their son’s real killer.
But he was cleared of causing or allowing his son’s death at home in Pontcanna, Cardiff, south Wales, by failing to act to prevent it.Ege was found guilty both of murder and of a charge of perverting the course of justice.Mr Justice Wyn Williams accepted that she had suffered prolonged bouts of depression due to a number of factors.He also listened as Ege’s barrister, Peter Murphy QC, spoke of the good she had done for her son, calling her “a brilliant mother”.
Mr Justice Wyn Williams adjourned sentencing in Ege’s case last month for psychological reports into her mental state.Before the trial she had spent several months in a secure psychiatric unit after being sectioned by doctors.