VIDEO clips of a baby being tormented by a Pendle man have been played to a murder trial jury.

In one piece of footage Darren Newton, 32, is seen repeatedly hitting Charlie Hunt around the head, jamming his finger in his ear and kicking him as he crawled away.

Prosecutor Dennis Watson QC said the video clip was entitled ‘two minutes of pain’.

Another clip showed Charlie sitting naked shivering in a bath while filmed by Newton. In the final moments of the clip the baby’s head reels back sharply from a blow by Newton.

In each of the eight clips shown to the jury Charlie, who is dressed either in a romper suit or red t-shirt and bib, is crying and distressed.

Charlie was 15-months-old when he died on November 19 last year after being in Newton's care at his home.

Newton, of Warwick Drive, Earby denies murdering Charlie and two cruelty offences at Manchester Crown Court. He has admitted 12 other child cruelty offences.

Newton claimed Charlie had suffered a fit and collapsed but prosecutors allege Newton caused a number of brain injuries which led to the child's death.

Home Office Pathologist Dr Philip Lumb, who conducted a post mortem on Charlie, confirmed there was a number of fresh and old areas of bleeding on Charlie's brain at the time of his death.

Dr Lumb said that a video clip ‘happy slap’ shot a fortnight before Charlie’s death showed several instances where the baby’s head was thrown forward following blows by Newton.

Defence counsel Andrew Thomas QC said there was evidence at the post mortem examination of older brain injuries which would have complicated the patholigists findings.

He also told the court that Charlie had suffered no fewer than three seizures in the September before his death.

But questioned by Mr Thomas, Dr Lumb said: “A short duration seizure has not caused the brain sweling or other findings in this case.”

He added later: “Severe or considerable force has been used of the kind that is not usually seen in seizure activity.

“It is likely that the injuries were caused at the same time as the loss of consciousness and collapse.”

The trial continues.

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