Brute jailed for 12 years after killing his baby
Evil monster caged for fatal attack on seven-week son at his home
An dad who killed his sevenweek-old baby boy has been jailed for 12 years.
Brian Penn, 30, carried out the fatal attack on tiny Kaleb Penn at his home in Ayr on November 1, 2017.
He had tried to pin the blame on the boy’s mum Kelly Ann Cope.
Penn violently shook Kaleb and inflicted an unknown blunt force trauma on him.
The stricken child was found to have suffered a skull fracture, a bleed to the brain, a serious brain injury and fractured ribs.
Penn initially claimed to medics the boy had suffered a “choking episode” but he died two days later in hospital.
He was found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow of culpable homicide and a separate charge of assault to Kaleb’s severe injury and danger of life last month.
Penn had originally been charged with murder and a further allegation of attempted murder.
Judge Lord Weir told Penn at that he inflicted wounds on a “vulnerable baby lost forever to his family.”
The judge added: “When Kaleb was born he could have expected without realising it the loving parental care and nurture so vital to such helpless infants.
“The jury were satisfied that you inflicted blunt force trauma injuries to his head and body to sufficient seriousness fractures appeared on an x-ray.
“The physical assaults you carried out were the antithesis for the care Kaleb looked to you for and his life was tragically cut short.”
Brian McConnachie QC, defending Penn, told the court how the killer made admissions to a social worker that he may have hit Kaleb’s head on a door in “a panic”.
The advocate added: “The injury Kaleb suffered would have to have been suffered before that for Mr Penn to have been in a panic at that stage.”