The devastated dad of baby Hunter White - who died when he slipped down the side of a sofa - tearfully told how he had let his son down. Describing tiny Hunter as, "a beautiful little baby", father-of-five Adam White expressed his feelings as a judge gave him a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, over the neglect of his son.
Adam White, a self-employed contracted plumber, refused to discuss the painful details of what happened to his son who was just 18 days old when he died in his care. Nottingham Crown Court heard then a £100-a-week cannabis-user, White, 45, of Foxhill Road East, Carlton, had placed Hunter back in his Moses basket after his night-time feed.
But White, of stocky build, fell asleep with Hunter on the sofa. Hunter fell down the side of the settee and was unable to breathe and died.
