Father jailed for murdering his five-week-old son by breaking his neck

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A father who murdered his five-week-old son by a horrific marketing campaign of violent abuse has been jailed for life.

Michael Davis’s assaults on his son, Ollie, left the new child child with 40 bone fractures, together with breaks to the cranium, collar bone, joints in each legs and arms and 23 rib fractures.

The younger boy was discovered unresponsive at his residence in Leicester in 2017 – and was later pronounced useless in hospital, with a autopsy confirming his demise was from the delayed results of a damaged neck.

It is believed this deadly damage had occurred as much as eight days earlier than his demise, and had led to the compression of the spinal twine which had induced him to cease respiratory.

During his police interviews, 29-year-old Davis provided no clarification for how his son had suffered these accidents, and was seen shrugging his shoulders and telling officers: “I haven’t got any idea of how this might have happened, no.”

Following a trial, he was convicted of homicide and has now been jailed for life with a minimal time period of twenty-two years.

After saying he was certain that Davis had induced all of the accidents throughout 4 separate in a single day “episodes” of violence, Mr Justice Cotter added: “At least five different mechanisms were required to cause this terrible array of injuries.

“Michael Davis, I have no doubt that during the night you became frustrated and angry and this led to terrible violence.

“You assaulted him on multiple occasions. The attacks in their various forms were also brutal – in particular the fatal neck injury.”

In not in search of medical assist, Davis had proven “callous indifference” to Ollie’s struggling, the choose additionally mentioned.

Ollie Davis’ mom Kayleigh Driver was jailed for seven years by Mr Justice Cotter for permitting the demise of a kid and permitting critical bodily damage.

The choose instructed the 31-year-old: “You must have heard Ollie’s cries after he was assaulted, as you were together in the bedroom. This must have woken you up.”

It later emerged that social providers didn’t take early alternatives to evaluate the household regardless of the numerous earlier involvement each mother and father had had with kids’s social care.

In a report compiled by Leicester Safeguarding Children Partnership Board in 2017, they mentioned that whereas the abuse suffered by Ollie was not forseeable, there have been classes to be realized from the case.

It discovered that there had been a scarcity of “professional curiosity” about Davis’s historical past and circumstances, and that sure contacts and referrals about Ollie had not been handled with “sufficient care, thoroughness and gravity”.

Ollie’s mom was discovered not responsible of homicide and was additionally cleared of a separate cost of inflicting grievous bodily hurt with intent.

However, she was discovered responsible of inflicting or permitting the demise of a kid, and inflicting or permitting a baby to endure critical bodily damage.