“…whilst you were having coffee, you heard your son “whinging”, in your words, and you went inside to check on him. Because ‘he was carrying on’, as you put it, you shook him and punched him to the chest.
“You then grabbed him around the neck, lifted him and shook him. His neck was completely unprotected. You then wrapped him and put him back in the cot. As you said to the police, ‘I wrapped him up, heard him whinging a bit, and I clouted him in the ear hole’. You said you did that quite hard, a couple of times, whereupon your son went quiet.
“ He then started crying again and you punched him in the stomach or chest, two or three times. You then walked out the bedroom and shut the door. You lit up a cigarette and finished your coffee.
“Upon returning inside the house to make another coffee, you heard your son crying, again. You gave him the dummy, which he spat out. You then punched him a couple of times in the chest. You picked him up, tried the dummy, and once more he spat it out. Then, in your words to police, ‘I clapped him in the head a couple of times’. You shook him again, this time holding him under the arms. You closed the door and left the bedroom.
“A friend later arrived, unexpectedly, at your home. He brought some beers, which you were sharing with him. You went to check on the baby and, as you said to police, ‘I could hear him whinging and carrying on and I thought, f***in’ not now, not now. I went in there, had a quick look, tucked him in, put his dummy in and he spat it out and I hit him on the forehead a couple of times’.
“You described hitting him with the heel of your hand two, three or four times, with more force applied after the first blow. He was lying in the cot. You told the police ‘and then I’m just going to have a little drink, I punched him a couple of times in the chest again and shut the door and went out’. You returned to your friend and continued drinking, displaying no signs, at all, of any loss of control nor, indeed, of any agitation.”

When he died after weeks of being eaten, punched, slapped and shaken by his father