Jack Benham tells a jury he woke up to find the Alfie Phillips lying partly underneath him.
A man accused of murdering his girlfriend's baby has told a jury he woke up to find the child "floppy" in the bed lying next to him.
His mother Sian Hedges, 27, and her former partner Jack Benham, 35, deny murdering the boy in a caravan in Kent.He said: "His lips were blue, he didn't look good at all."I scooped Alfie up and I was crying and I screamed into his body with my mouth on him, I was screaming and screaming and ran out of the caravan."
Mr Benham told the jury that on the night the prosecution claim Alfie was murdered he smoked cannabis and at least a gram of crack cocaine, as well as drinking more than half a bottle of whiskey.He said Ms Hedges had also taken cocaine and had been drinking. The jury heard Ms Hedges did leave the caravan in the early hours of the morning for about half an hour to drive to a friend's house to try and buy cocaine, leaving Alfie and Mr Benham alone.He told the jury he never deliberately hurt Alfie and had never seen Ms Hedges hurt him.
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