The trial is due to begin today of two women accused of a murdering a two-year-old Fife boy and trying to blame the killing on another boy, aged seven.
Rachel Fee, 31, who is also known as Rachel Trelfa, and her civil partner Nyomi Fee, 28, deny murdering Liam Johnson, also known as Liam Fee, by repeatedly inflicting blunt force trauma to his head and body in Thornton on occasions between March 15 and 22 2014.
The case at the High Court in Livingston was scheduled to begin last Monday but was delayed.
The women are also pleading not guilty to attempting to defeat the ends of justice by falsely telling a 999 operator, ambulance personnel, police, friends and family members that a seven-year-old boy was responsible for the death.
It is also alleged that on various occasions between January 2012 and March 2014 they failed to provide Liam with adequate exercise or physical and mental stimulation by leaving him in his pushchair for prolonged periods and that they put a blanket over his face, taped socks to his hands and left him in a darkened room.
The two women also deny harming two young boys from January 2012 to March 2014. It is alleged that the pair compelled one of the boys to stand naked under a cold shower as a punishment for wetting the bed, then pushed him and told him to stand still if his body shook.
The Crown also claim they built a cage using a metal fireguard and wood, and that they locked him in it for prolonged periods during the day and night.
It is alleged the couple bound the child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to the cage with cable ties, string, the cord from a dressing gown, placed items on him and struck him if the objects fell off, poured water over him and pretended he had urinated and on occasions forced him to sit with his feet raised from the ground and refused to let him put them down.
The Crown also claims the Fees forced the young boy to eat his own excrement, threatened to cut off his penis, put soap in his mouth, forced him to sleep in a closed drawer and failed to provide him with adequate food.