An adolescent accused of murdering a four-month-old child by shaking him after shedding his mood referred to as the toddler a ‘c***t’ in a Snapchat message days earlier, a courtroom has heard.
Elijah Shemwell suffered limb and rib fractures earlier than he died in January 2022, allegedly by the hands of his mum’s ex Carl Alesbrook.
The 19-year-old denies homicide and two extra counts of GBH regarding assaults on Elijah. A 3rd GBH cost was withdrawn by the choose as a consequence of inadequate proof.
Days earlier than Elijah was rushed to hospital on January 2, Alesbrook, who was 16 on the time, despatched a Snapchat message to Elijah’s mom, India Shemwell, calling the infant a ‘c***’.
Ms Shemwell, 23, messaged him saying she would purchase some child components, to which Alesbrook replied: ‘He’s being a c***, he retains spitting it out. He doesn’t want altering both, I checked 10 minutes in the past.’
When requested by defence barrister Mark Heywood KC whether or not he was ‘unduly angered or irritated’ by Elijah, Alesbrook responded ‘no’.
The defendant, of Matlock, informed the jury he fed Elijah ‘fairly a couple of instances’, however that was all ‘responsibility-wise’.
Prosecutor Vanessa Marshall KC alleged that the kid crying might make the 16-year-old ‘lose his mood’, particularly if he was ‘not feeling nice himself’.
The jury heard proof that Alesbrook was affected by a toothache and had sought co-codamol to deal with it.
She addressed Alesbrook: ‘Regardless of your efforts to console him, you resorted to the one tactic you found might cease that child crying and that was to shake him.
‘You shook him on no less than two events, one in all which killed him.’
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Alesbrook additionally denied being ‘in love’ with Ms Shemwell or being ‘jealous’ that she was nonetheless seeing the daddy of her little one.
However proof was proven to the jury that Alesbrook despatched her a message saying it ‘hurts’ him that she slept with Elijah’s father simply 4 hours after he had helped her at dwelling.
Ms Marshall alleged that this ‘actually upset’ Alesbrook, however he stated: ‘I wouldn’t say that it actually upset me, it could be extra of a shock that it occurred inside a small time.’
The trial continues.
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