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| A father has been jailed for killing his three-week-old baby by shaking him and banging his head on a hard surface after he refused to take his bottle. | |
| Trent Wilson was taken to hospital in Poole, Dorset, with head injuries in March 2007, but died the day after. | |
| Kitt Wilson, 25, from Bournemouth, said he had a "sudden loss of temper". He had earlier admitted manslaughter, but murder charge was dropped. | |
| He was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Friday to five years in jail. | He was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Friday to five years in jail. |
| The court heard Wilson, a kitchen porter, was angered when his son refused to take his bottle as he attempted to feed him. | |
| Richard Smith, prosecuting, said Wilson told police: "I held him up in the air and I shook him, I screamed 'Why don't you take your bottle? | Richard Smith, prosecuting, said Wilson told police: "I held him up in the air and I shook him, I screamed 'Why don't you take your bottle? |
| Fractured skull | |
| "I may have hit his head on the door frame when I shook him." | "I may have hit his head on the door frame when I shook him." |
| The court heard Trent suffered fractures to his ribs and a severe head injury, as well as a bruise to his mouth consistent with a bottle being forced into it. | The court heard Trent suffered fractures to his ribs and a severe head injury, as well as a bruise to his mouth consistent with a bottle being forced into it. |
| Mr Smith added: "The child would not take the bottle. For that reason the defendant lost his temper with his child, took him up with a grip sufficiently tight so as to break more than one rib of the baby. | Mr Smith added: "The child would not take the bottle. For that reason the defendant lost his temper with his child, took him up with a grip sufficiently tight so as to break more than one rib of the baby. |
| "Having taken him up with that grip, this defendant then shook the child and having done that it is clear that he impelled the child's head into a hard surface with a sufficient force that there was a significant fracture to the baby's head." | "Having taken him up with that grip, this defendant then shook the child and having done that it is clear that he impelled the child's head into a hard surface with a sufficient force that there was a significant fracture to the baby's head." |
| Trent died at the hands of his father, the one man he should have been able to rely on to protect and care for him Det Ch Insp Neil Redstone | |
| Mr Smith said that instead of calling for an ambulance, Wilson had a cigarette until his partner, the baby's mother Kaylie Irving, 19, returned from the shops a few minutes later. | Mr Smith said that instead of calling for an ambulance, Wilson had a cigarette until his partner, the baby's mother Kaylie Irving, 19, returned from the shops a few minutes later. |
| Ms Irving, a chef, then called 999 and went in the ambulance with her son to Poole General Hospital on 8 March, 2007. | |
| The baby, who was then transferred to Southampton General Hospital, died the following day. | |
| The court was told that Wilson initially told police that he had accidentally dropped Trent while changing his nappy but after subsequent interviews he admitted causing his death. | The court was told that Wilson initially told police that he had accidentally dropped Trent while changing his nappy but after subsequent interviews he admitted causing his death. |
| Judge Guy Boney QC told him: "In your anger you banged your child's head against a flat surface. | |
| "I accept you are fully remorseful and sorry for what you did, you would have to have a heart of stone not to." | |
| Speaking outside court, Det Ch Insp Neil Redstone, of Dorset Police, said: "Trent died at the hands of his father, the one man he should have been able to rely on to protect and care for him." | |
| Wilson was also disqualified from working with children. |