Baby P’s evil mum has admitted she ‘knew deep down’ he was being abused by her partner before he died.

Tracey Connelly, 42, acknowledged she was a ‘shit’ mother while giving her first public account of the toddler’s harrowing death as she makes a fresh bid for freedom in front of the parole board.

She was jailed at the Old Bailey in 2009 for causing or allowing the death of her 17-month-old son Peter at their home in Tottenham, north London, on August 3, 2007.

Her then boyfriend, Steven Barker, and his brother, Jason Owen, were convicted of the same crime. Barker, was given a 12-year sentence, with the court hearing how he tortured the 17-month-old.

The parole hearing heard how Baby Peter had been subjected to a number of violent assaults and suffered more than 50 injuries, including a

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