Thug who left child utterly paralysed after shaking him is jailed

A thug who shook a child boy so exhausting he was left utterly paralysed, blind and struggling as much as 40 seizures a day has been jailed for 3 years.

Adam Andrews, 37, had proven ‘completely no regret’ since inflicting the accidents on the 21-day-old child on June 28, 2018, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

In a transferring sufferer impression assertion, the mom of the boy, who’s now aged 5, stated he was blind and paralysed, and would by no means be capable of stroll or discuss.

She added: ‘His bed room isn’t crammed with toys however with feed machines and medical tools.

‘He won’t ever be capable of have meals or water and must be fed by a button connected to his bowel.’

Adam Andrews’ mugshot after he was arrested

The mom added her son required 24-hour care, and suffered between 30 and 40 seizures a day.

She stated: ‘I’ve to look at my little one deteriorate for what this man has finished in a burst of shock of anger.

‘He shouldn’t be allowed to stroll the streets whereas I take care of my little one across the clock.

‘I’ve to simply accept it is very doubtless I’m going to survive my little one. When I go to sleep each evening my greatest concern is [he] won’t get up with me.’

Andrews of Raynsford Road, Great Whelnetham, close to Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was beforehand discovered not responsible of inflicting grievous bodily hurt with intent towards the kid at a trial in 2022.

But he was convicted of a lesser cost of grievous bodily hurt with out intent.

Prosecutor Steven Perian KC stated Andrews had proven ‘completely no regret’ because the incident greater than 4 years in the past.

William Carter, defending, stated the shaking doubtless occurred over only a few seconds and that ‘this was a spontaneous lack of management’.

Judge David Pugh stated it was clear that the boy’s accidents have been inflicted by Andrews’ ‘violent shaking’ of him. 

Ipswich Court heard Andrews confirmed ‘completely no regret’ because the incident in 2018

The decide informed him: ‘Precisely what occurred later that evening and why, solely you’ll know.’

There have been claps from the general public gallery because the mom completed studying her assertion, however Andrews didn’t react to the speech or his sentence.

He is believed to have labored for a housing affiliation on the time of the assault.

The court docket heard how the newborn was initially taken to West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, with a critical head harm earlier than being transferred to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.