Mother jailed for life for battering her baby then posing for a selfie as he lay dying A violent mother who took photos of herself and her 11-month-old son after beatings which ended in his horrific death has been jailed for life.
Emma Wilson, 25, left Callum with a detached retina, an 'unsurvivable brain injury' and 11 broken bones after battering him so violently that the ceiling in the flat below shook. She tried to blame the injuries on Callum’s ‘boisterous’ two-year-old brother who she said was jealous of his sibling. Sentencing her to life with a minimum of 14 years, Judge Stephen Kramer QC said she had showed 'no emotion' throughout the five-week trial at the Old Bailey.
The court heard that Callum suffered a catalogue of abuse in the weeks before his death, during which Wilson took ‘before’ and ‘after’ photographs of herself with him. The latter pictures show her grinning next to her crying son whose face shows obvious injuries. Another showed Callum moving away from a young boy wielding a pair of secateurs. The abuse culminated in a violent attack in March 2011 when neighbours heard five or six loud bangs. Judge Kramer said: 'They caused the ceiling and light fitting to shake and the neighbours said they thought “the kid was going to come through the floor'.' The next morning Wilson told an emergency operator that Callum was 'lifeless and not doing anything'. He was taken by ambulance to Wexham Park Hospital in Slough before being transferred to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where he died three days later. He was found to have suffered severe brain damage and fractures to nine ribs, his left leg and right arm. |
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