>Two other young boys, who cannot be named, were subjected to painful and degrading treatment at the hands of Rachel and Nyomi Fee. They were:
>Denied access to the toilet then forced to take freezing showers when they wet the bed
>Beaten, smacked and called humiliating names
>Deprived of food as a punishment
>One was tied to a locked home-made cage at night-time
>Another was tied naked to a chair and left alone in the dark in a room with snakes and rats in boxes. He was warned the creatures eat 'naughty little boys'.
>Forced to eat dog excrement and their own vomit
>The pair showed little emotion as the two verdicts were returned. Liam's father Joseph Johnson was later spotted in tears as he left the court.
>Jurors listened as the expert detailed more than 30 external injuries he found on the toddler's body, most of them 'in keeping with blunt force trauma'.
>These included an abrasion and laceration to the back of the head, bruises on his shin and thigh and external injuries to the genital area.
>Not all the bruises could be explained away as 'the rough and tumble' of a toddler.
>Liam also showed signs of neglect.
>During the post-mortem, the expert noted the toddler as having a low body weight for his age; lower in fact than it had been a full eight months earlier.
>The defendant said she did not seek medical help for Liam's snapped thigh bone over fears her partner, also known as Rachel Trelfa, would leave her, the court heard.
>Jurors were told how she had searched the Internet for “how do you die from a broken hip”, the Daily Record reports.
>The court heard that between March 17 and March 20, Nyomi Fee had searched the web for the symptoms of broken legs, broken hips and blood clots using her smartphone.
>She had also searched if the ailments could cause death, it was said. She 'medicated' Liam for the pain using Calpol and Ibuprofen, the jury was told.