A jury has been told a man accused of killing a toddler in the NSW Hunter Valley almost 20 years ago gave the boy a toxic dose of antidepressant medication, a charge the man denies.
Cecil Patrick Kennedy has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of toddler Jordan Thompson in Singleton in 2005.His District Court trial is expected to take up to eight weeks with the jury to hear from dozens of witnesses.
The jury was told the toddler's mother, Bernice Swales, left her son in the care of her then-boyfriend, Mr Kennedy, at his Singleton unit while she went to the shops to get items for dinner. Ms Nightingale told the jury a sample of Jordan's blood found amitriptyline — an antidepressant drug.The jury was told police obtained medical records of people connected to Jordan and the trial will hear that Mr Kennedy was the only person close to him who was prescribed the drug.Mr Kennedy is accused of giving Jordan one dose of the drug within 24 hours of his death.
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