Father found guilty of infant son's murder

A 29-year-old antheral has been recovered blameworthy of murdering his babe son.

Craig Rowland of Millington park, successful Portadown, had denied sidesplitting the kid but aft deliberating for much than six hours a jury, by a bulk of 11 to one, recovered him guilty.

Mr Justice O'Hara, successful Belfast's Crown Court, said due to the fact that Rowland had been recovered blameworthy of execution helium indispensable walk a condemnation of beingness imprisonment connected him.

A tariff volition beryllium decided astatine a proceeding successful December.

Lewis Oliver Rowland was conscionable three-weeks-old erstwhile helium was admitted to Craigavon Area Hospital successful 2015 with a superior encephalon injury.

He died 3 years aboriginal from complications arising from surgery.

Medical experts had told the proceedings that the encephalon wounded Lewis had sustained arsenic a babe was apt caused by a "forceful shaking episode".

It was the prosecution's lawsuit that the injuries suffered by the kid successful 2015 were a "significant origin of his death."

Both Craig Rowland and the child's mother, Laura Graham, had antecedently pleaded blameworthy to wilful neglect.