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Baby ‘shaken and battered by his father before he died of catastrophic injuries’

Source: PA Archive

A baby was “shaken and battered” by his father days before he died of catastrophic injuries in his mother’s arms in hospital, a court has heard.

David Hollick, 29, denies murdering his six-month-old son Kairo Jax Hollick, who died at Birmingham Children’s Hospital on February 12 2020.

A jury of 10 women and two men at Birmingham Crown Court heard Kairo had suffered a non-survivable brain injury, at least two skull fractures and a fracture to his right arm.

Prosecutor David Mason KC told the court Kairo was in the care of his father when

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