
A man accused of murdering his two-year-old grandson has told a court the toddler’s mother was “quick-tempered” and would slap him to the back of the head.
Michael Ives, 47, and his wife Kerry, 46, are accused of fatally injuring Ethan Ives-Griffiths when he lived with them at their home in Garden City, Flintshire, north Wales, before his death on August 16 2021.