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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Kim Pilling

‘Frustrated’ father who killed crying baby jailed for nine years and 11 months

Peter Sayle (Lancashire Constabulary/PA) -

A man who killed his baby son when his frustration at the infant’s crying “boiled over” has been jailed for nine years and 11 months.

Peter Sayle, 32, pleaded guilty to an alternative count of manslaughter five days into his murder trial at Preston Crown Court after more than three-and-a-half years of denying he was responsible for causing his son any harm.

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