Bury St Edmunds man who shook baby jailed for three years

Before Ipswich Crown Court on Thursday was Adam Andrews, of Raynsford Road, Great Whelnetham, near Bury St Edmunds.

He had previously been found not guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent against the child in 2022 but was convicted of a lesser charge of grievous bodily harm without intent.

The court heard the incident happened on June 28, 2018, when the victim was 21 days old.

“Precisely what happened later that night and why, only you will know,” Judge David Pugh told Andrews in the dock.

Andrews was jailed for three years (Image: Suffolk police)

Judge Pugh said the boy's injuries were inflicted by "violent shaking".

Prosecutor Steven Perian KC said Andrews had shown “absolutely no remorse” since the incident more than four years ago.

In mitigation, defence barrister William Carter said the shaking likely happened over just a few seconds and that “this was a spontaneous loss of control".

A statement from the boy's mother was read out in court, and she said the victim is blind and paralysed, will never walk or talk and requires 24-hour care.

She added: “His bedroom is not filled with toys but with feed machines and medical equipment.

“He will never be able to have food or water and has to be fed by a button attached to his bowel.”

She added that the boy suffers between 30 and 40 seizures a day.

The mother added: “I have to watch my child deteriorate for what this man has done in a burst of outrage of anger. He should not be allowed to walk the streets while I care for my child around the clock.

“I have to accept it’s very likely I’m going to outlive my child.

“When I fall asleep every night my biggest fear is [he] will not wake up with me.”

There were claps from the public gallery as she finished, but Andrews did not react to the speech or his sentence.