This is the bloodied cane child-murderer Christina Robinson used to beat her three-year-old son with on the day he died.

A trial heard Robinson, 30, who has been found guilty by a jury of murder and four charges of child neglect, subjected Dwelaniyah to a campaign of “violence and cruelty” in the weeks before his death.

Robinson, of Ushaw Moor, County Durham, admitted beating her son with this bamboo garden cane on the day he died, November 5, 2022.

The Northern Echo: This is the bamboo cane found smeared with Dwelaniyah's blood.This is the bamboo cane found smeared with Dwelaniyah's blood. (Image: DURHAM POLICE)

It was found in their Bracken Court home stained with the toddler’s blood and fragments of his skin.

A jury found her guilty of a charge of child neglect for beating Dwelaniyah, as well as murder and three other neglect charges.

The former personal trainer, who is a follower of the Black Hebrew Israelites religion, claimed she was allowed to chastise her son because of teachings in the bible.

She had been watching teachings online which she said taught her to punish her son for correction.

The Northern Echo: The cane was found in the kitchen of the family home at Bracken Court in Ushaw Moor, County Durham.The cane was found in the kitchen of the family home at Bracken Court in Ushaw Moor, County Durham. (Image: DURHAM POLICE)

He’d been “messing with his food” when she decided to beat him on the day he died.

She said during the trial: “I thought I was doing the right thing after hearing the scriptures which promoted the use of a rod for correction.”

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“I didn’t know what I was doing, I thought I was doing it right. I just really wanted to be obedient to God and I thought this was part of it.”

Robinson admitted she had realised she was “misguided”.

She also admitted hitting him with a spoon.

Blood stains were also found on a door frame from the kitchen to the hall, on a rug in the lounge, on the stairs which were consistent with him bleeding from his burns, on a panel in the bathroom and on the carpet in front of his cot.

She will be sentenced in May.