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28/03/2006
Life sentence for man over baby son's death
A father has been jailed for life for choking his seven-week-old son to death with a baby wipe.
Ian Hunt, 26, killed baby Christian at the family's home in St Helens, Merseyside, last September because he would not stop crying.
Hunt had admitted murdering Christian at an earlier hearing, blaming the pressures of fatherhood for his actions.
Hunt had also broken eight of Christian's ribs and there were also a series of other injuries inflicted on the baby, which the prosecution had alleged were sexually motivated.
At sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court, Mr Justice Silber described Hunt's actions as "sadistic". He said: "While any other human being would try and comfort Christian you instead delberately and cruelly forced a baby wipe in his mouth and down his windpipe so he tragically died of asphyxia as he was unable to breathe."
He sentenced him to serve a minimum of 20 years behind bars.
Christian's mother Helen, 21, who was not at home when the murder took place, said that the sentence had brought justice for her son.
(KMcA/SP)
Ian Hunt, 26, killed baby Christian at the family's home in St Helens, Merseyside, last September because he would not stop crying.
Hunt had admitted murdering Christian at an earlier hearing, blaming the pressures of fatherhood for his actions.
Hunt had also broken eight of Christian's ribs and there were also a series of other injuries inflicted on the baby, which the prosecution had alleged were sexually motivated.
At sentencing at Liverpool Crown Court, Mr Justice Silber described Hunt's actions as "sadistic". He said: "While any other human being would try and comfort Christian you instead delberately and cruelly forced a baby wipe in his mouth and down his windpipe so he tragically died of asphyxia as he was unable to breathe."
He sentenced him to serve a minimum of 20 years behind bars.
Christian's mother Helen, 21, who was not at home when the murder took place, said that the sentence had brought justice for her son.
(KMcA/SP)
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