CROCODILE TEARS OF A BABY KILLER
C4 show exposes lies of ‘dad’ who beat boy to death
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A CHILD killer is captured on film weeping as he is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend’s 12-weekold son.
Kane Mitchell, 31, left Teddie Mitchell with injuries that police compared to those suffered by Baby P.
They included 17 broken ribs, fractures to his skull and collarbone; and brain, spinal and eye damage.
Cowardly Mitchell killed little Teddie in the flat he shared with the boy’s mother, Lucci Smith, 29, in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, in 2019.
And a new two-part special of the Channel 4 series 24 Hours in
Police Custody takes viewers behind the scenes of the investigation.
Detective Inspector Lucy Thompson, who spearheaded the probe, says of Mitchell: “He is completely devoid of any remorse or empathy, that’s the thing I
find really hard. It’s all about Kane and not what Teddie’s been through.”
A body camera catches the moment Mitchell is arrested while pretending to be a doting father in hospital.
He shouts: “I don’t f***ing think so. Oh my God, I would never hurt a baby. I’m not leaving my son.”
Using medical evidence of Teddie’s terrible injuries, detectives were able to prove Mitchell had killed him.
He did so by smashing Teddie’s head against a hard surface and crushing his tiny body with his bare hands.
One detective tells a colleague Teddie had been attacked five or six times. He says: “This is akin to Baby P-type injuries.”
The footage shows Mitchell holding his victim in intensive care as he sobs: “Come on, baby, Daddy’s here.”
But while Teddie is in hospital, watched over by Smith and Mitchell, detectives are monitoring the couple.
Cameras follow every twist of a probe on behalf of a victim who will never be able to tell police what really happened.
Mitchell, who was not Teddie’s father, was jailed for a minimum 18-year term at Cambridge crown court in February.
Smith was convicted of cruelty to a child. The trial heard she did not dial 999 for more than 30 minutes after being urged to do so by her GP surgery.
24 Hours in Police Custody, tonight and tomorrow at 9pm on Channel 4.