A court has heard that four-year-old Tyrell Cobb was covered in bruises and vomited green slime before he died more than seven years ago, as his mother and stepfather face court over his murder.

Tyrell Cobb was found unconscious at a Biggera Waters home on May 24, 2009 and was pronounced dead in hospital.

His mother Heidi Strbak, 33, and her ex-partner Matthew Scown, 33, both charged with murder, appeared at Brisbane Magistrates Court on Wednesday for a committal hearing. The pair had one count of torture dropped.

The boy’s uncle, Daniel Allan, said the boy was ‘covered in bruises’ on his head and arms the day before he died, and a day after, he became ‘sluggish’ and was ‘throwing up green slime’.

Mr Allan allegedly said that Mr Scown had punched the boy in the stomach and showed Mr Allan a bruise above his genitals. He also allegedly told his ex-girlfriend, Nicole Brown, that Mr Scown had murdered the boy.

The court also heard that on another occasion, Tyrell showed his grandmother Diane Strbak a bruise on his body and told her ‘Matt kicked me’.

The court was also told that Tyrell had been to hospital because he had a broken arm, two days before he died.

Mr Allan claimed Ms Strbak, his stepsister, was ‘stoned’ and should be jailed for not noticing her son’s injuries.

“Someone should be locked up for it, if not one then both of them. Kids just don’t die and throw up green s*** every day of the week do they? Someone’s got to go to jail. How does a mother not notice 76 bruises? How did she not see when bathing him – what kind of a mother is that? Stoned as a parrot all the time – that’s why,” he said.

He added that when he asked Ms Strbak about Tyrell’s injuries, she said they ‘happened at kindy’.

A pathologist found over 70 injuries on Tyrell’s body and said he suffered internal bleeding and a severe abdominal injury in Ms Strbak’s original bail hearing.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk