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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Man guilty of murdering two-week-old son in Somerset baby unit

Brendon Staddon asleep in hospital bedding
Brendon was born at 33 weeks and weighed less that ‘a couple of bags of sugar’. Photograph: Family handout/Avon and Somerset police

A man has been found guilty of murdering his two-week-old son in a special care baby unit in Somerset by shattering his skull and breaking his neck while nurses worked less than 5 metres away.

Experts said the injuries that Daniel Gunter, 27, caused to Brendon Staddon were like those they would expect to see in someone who had fallen from a high building, but the attack was so swift and silent that staff did not realise what was going on.

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