Five-week-old boy died eight days after his neck was ‘snapped’

A five-week-old child was discovered lifeless in his cot with 37 fractures and died eight days after his neck was ‘snapped’, his mother and father’ homicide trial has heard.   

Ollie Davies was pronounced lifeless at 7.30am on October 21, 2017, after being found in a bed room he shared along with his mother and father in Upper Temple Walk, Leicester.

Prosecutors allege Ollie was injured whereas within the care of his mom Kayleigh Driver, 31, and father Michael Davis, 29, who each deny homicide and inflicting or permitting dying.

A jury at Leicester Crown Court heard how the toddler had sustained 22 damaged ribs, in addition to fractures to his cranium, collar bone, each arms and all of the joints in his 4 limbs earlier than he arrived at Leicester Royal Infirmary on the day of his dying.

Crown Counsel Jonas Hankin KC says the prosecution believes that Ollie was subjected to critical bodily abuse which ‘most definitely occurred over the past 10 days of his life’.

Opening the Crown’s case right this moment, Mr Hankin advised jurors: ‘The case considerations the dying of five-week-old Ollie Davis on the morning of the twenty first of October 2017.

‘He was discovered lifeless in his crib within the bed room that he shared along with his mother and father at Upper Temple Walk right here in Leicester.

‘An ambulance was referred to as and he was taken to the Leicester Royal Infirmary. However, medical workers have been unable to revive him and at 7.30am it was agreed that makes an attempt to resuscitate him must be discontinued.

‘He was then pronounced lifeless. He died from the delayed results of a damaged neck.’

The court docket heard each defendants deny any wrongdoing, every saying that they didn’t trigger their son any bodily hurt in any respect.

Neither Driver, who was recognized with a number of sclerosis final 12 months and appeared earlier than the jury sitting on a mobility scooter, nor Davis had put ahead an account of an accident or accidents to clarify the accidents to their son, Mr Hankin stated.

Alleging that among the accidents the infant had suffered have been inflicted days earlier than he was taken to hospital, he added: ‘Although the pathology does not permit us to determine the exact mechanism with certainty… the (medical) specialists engaged on this case on all sides are agreed that the neck damage led to compression of the spinal twine, which in flip stopped Ollie respiratory.

‘What the pathology investigation can inform us is the neck was snapped between 4 and eight days previous to his dying.’

Mr Hankin submitted that the proof would make the jury positive that one among Ollie’s mother and father was the ‘perpetrator’ of his accidents.

‘This would be the key subject so that you can decide at trial,’ he advised the court docket.

The Crown’s barrister added: ‘A damaged neck was not the one damage Ollie sustained. A medical investigation revealed Ollie had sustained a complete of 37 fractures.

‘They included fractures to the cranium, his collar bone, each arms between the shoulder and the elbow, 23 rib fractures and fractures to the joints of all 4 limbs.

‘He additionally suffered mind accidents, bleeding over the floor of the mind.’

The accidents have been inflicted over varied overlapping time-frames of as much as 10 days earlier than dying, the court docket heard.

Mr Hankin continued: ‘Ollie couldn’t have induced the accidents to himself – he was a five-week-old pre-mobile child.

‘The nature of those accidents is such that a number of mechanisms have been required to trigger them. Severe compressive pressure is required to trigger the rib fractures.

‘These accidents and the occasions that induced them couldn’t have taken place in a single episode of violence.’

Referring to an damage to Ollie’s left first rib, Mr Hankin advised the jury: ‘It is perhaps vital as a result of it’s common floor between the defendants that Mr Davis was in sole cost of Ollie in a single day on the twentieth and the twenty first of October.

‘If you’re happy that that was an inflicted damage then he will need to have been the perpetrator as a result of he was the only grownup carer answerable for the infant at across the time the damage will need to have been induced.

‘You might imagine additionally that it is most definitely that he’s the perpetrator of all of Ollie’s different abusive accidents.’

Davis denies two counts of inflicting grievous bodily hurt with intent, inflicting or permitting a baby to endure critical bodily hurt, inflicting or permitting the dying of a kid, and homicide.

Driver additionally denies inflicting grievous bodily hurt with intent, inflicting or permitting a baby to endure critical bodily hurt, inflicting or permitting the dying of a kid, and homicide.

The trial continues.

 

 

 

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