A child was “shaken and battered” by his father days earlier than he died of catastrophic accidents, a courtroom has heard.
David Hollick, 29, denies murdering his six-month-old son Kairo Jax Hollick, who died in his mom’s arms at Birmingham Children’s Hospital on 12 February 2020.
Kairo had suffered a non-survivable mind harm, no less than two cranium fractures and a fracture to his proper arm, the jury at Birmingham Crown Court was informed.
Prosecutor David Mason KC informed the courtroom Kairo was within the care of his father when he was fatally injured on 9 February, saying it was their case the boy “had not only been shaken violently, but his head had been bashed at least twice” with a tough object by Hollick.
Mr Mason stated Hollick’s ex-partner Adina Johnson had dropped their son off at his house as normal on 7 February for the weekend.
The courtroom heard Hollick phoned Ms Johnson at 4.30am on 9 February however she didn’t reply due to the time, as a substitute messaging to say she would name him again later.
Hollick then despatched her a message telling her to “ring him back, it’s about Kai”.
Mr Mason informed the jury: “What had happened? Well, I’m afraid that the sad reality of this case, ladies and gentlemen, is that to date we have no idea of what really happened to Kairo.
“David Hollick has thus far failed, we are saying, to inform anybody the reality as to what he did to his little son.
“According to his account to his family and then to the police, the most that he ever admitted is shaking Kairo, but only after finding Kairo unresponsive.”
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Kairo was pushed to Walsall Manor Hospital, the place Hollick informed medical employees he had heard his child son crying earlier than he stopped respiration and claimed he solely shook him to “wake him up”.
Scans confirmed Kairo was affected by a bleed on the mind and a call was made to move him to Birmingham Children’s Hospital, however regardless of their specialist services, nothing might be achieved to save lots of him.
Experts are anticipated to inform the trial Kairo’s unsurvivable mind harm occurred concurrently the fractures to his cranium, whereas a fracture to his proper forearm might be timed between three and 7 days earlier than his demise.
Hollick denies homicide and an alternate cost of manslaughter.
The trial is predicted to final three weeks.
Source: information.sky.com”