A dad has been jailed for life for murdering his 'undernourished' son. Michael Harrison inflicted fatal injuries on 11-year-old Mikey Harrison at his Derbyshire home last year.
The 41-year-old, who waited for almost four hours to call an ambulance, has been sentenced to a minimum term of 21 years and six months. Harrison pleaded guilty last month to the murder of Mikey Harrison, who died in hospital in June last year after paramedics were called to a country park.
Harrison leaned forward in his seat staring at the ground, shielding his face from the public gallery, during almost all of his two-hour sentencing hearing on Thursday. The court was told that he repeatedly punched Mikey, who weighed 3st 11lb, at his home on the morning of June 18, causing a fatal laceration to his liver.
