Armagh man Craig Rowland denies charge of the murder and manslaughter of his son Lewis
The trial of a County Armagh man accused of murdering his infant son has heard from a doctor that injuries sustained by the 13-week-old were consistent with being shaken.
He told the court that there was bleeding at the back of Lewis' eye, and this was unlikely to have been caused by "direct trauma". Dr Newman defined shaking in this context as "holding a child in front of you with hands or fingers under the armpits, thumbs on chest."He added, if you "move the child backwards and forwards, they can no longer support their head, and their head would move backwards and forwards.
When questioned by the defence about the amount of force required, Dr Newman said, "the amount of force involved in a shaking-type injury can be difficult to determine."
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