Father asked if babies feel pain before son’s death

A father convicted of killing his baby son, who died after being shaken and submerged in water, asked online: “can babies feel pain?” prior to the death, a court heard.

Alistair Walker, 27, blamed paramedics for the fatal injuries he inflicted on three-month-old Ah’kiell Walker at home in Gloucester in July 2016. He was convicted of manslaughter, while Hannah Henry, 22, Ah’kiell’s mother, was found guilty of causing or allowing the death.

They were also convicted of child cruelty at Bristol Crown Court, after Ah’kiell was found to also have broken ribs and a fractured shoulder.

Walker, from London, and Henry, from Gloucester, will be sentenced on June 1.