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Eleanor Barlow

Man accused of grandson’s murder carried him ‘like a ragdoll’, court hears

Two-year-old Ethan Ives-Griffiths in the back garden of his grandparents’ home in Garden City, Flintshire (North Wales Police/PA) - (PA Media)

A man charged with murdering his grandson has told a court he had “no excuse” for holding the toddler “like a ragdoll”.

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.

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