The 22-year-old, who kept his head down for most of the court hearing on Friday, was jailed for 18 months for inflicting what the judge described as a ‘terrible’ injury on a helpless infant.
His baby daughter was kept in hospital for almost six weeks after the incident and was given morphine and diazepam to ease her pain, which was assessed as ten out of ten by a triage nurse.
• Read the full report in Monday’s JEP
