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Daily Mirror
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Abigail O'Leary

Dad who suffocated baby son found guilty of murder after boy dies 18 years later

A dad who suffocated his toddler son has been found guilty of murder after he died of an infection from his feeding tube - 18 years after the attack.

Alan Bird, 48, faces a life sentence after a jury found him guilty of murdering son Lewis Turner after a trial at Leeds Crown Court.

Bird inflicted permanent and irreparable brain damage on Lewis in an attack in 2001 when his son was just two years old.

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