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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Katie Weston

Dad who beat baby so badly he needed both legs amputated storms out of victim statement

A cowardly dad who abused his baby son so badly that he had both legs amputated will stay behind bars after his parole was refused.

Tony Smith, 52, is serving a 10-year prison sentence for swinging his infant son by his ankles, causing horrific fractures that led him to lose both legs.

Little Tony Hudgell was just 41 days old when he suffered eight fractures to his legs and then developed life-threatening septicaemia in 2014.

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