Parents of a toddler Levi Blu Cassin aka 'smiley happy Levi' were alleged to have killed there
22-month old boy. Prosecutor Timothy
Raggatt QC told the court that the toddler could have been punched in an
upright position several times or that Levi was lying on the floor and had been
stamped on either once or repeatedly.
According to the
prosecutor, the post-mortem examination revealed Levi, suffered an earlier
abdominal injury that had started to heal around two weeks before his death and
eventually died from 'major internal injuries' - with his small intestine split
in two - as a result of 'significant' blows to the body.
He added: 'This
case is about the death of a 22-month-old boy. It is the death of a child
through quite extreme violence and is going to be quite emotive.
'Danielle took a
sheet to her mother's the night before Levi died, and asked her mother if she
thought the stains on the blanket could be Levi's stomach lining.
'Her mother said
she thought the marks were just phlegm, and Danielle went home between 9-10pm,
having only told her mother that Levi was 'unwell'.
'There is then a
period of time in which only the two people sitting in the dock know what
happened.
'We do not know
what happened in the latter part of that evening until the 999 call the next
morning.
'Both parents
have persistently declined to tell the truth about what happened during that
time.
'But Levi died
as a result of abdominal injuries. They were very significant, major internal
injuries.
'The totality of
the injuries was so severe that they could not have happened by accident, they
are the result of at least one very substantial blow to the abdomen and maybe
more.
'The injury was
sustained at least six hours, and maybe up to 12 hours, before the 999 call was
put in asking for assistance.
'The defendants
are charged jointly with murder because this has to have occurred as a result
of cooperation between the two of them.
'It was a joint
enterprise. One person can do the damage, but if the other supports or connives
then they are guilty too.
'Levi died as
the result of the intentional joint actions of both defendants.
'Both parents
are yet to tell the truth so we simply do not know why this happened, and we
may never know.'
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