Jail for man who tried to kill toddler

A man who tried to murder a two-year-old boy while looking after him has been jailed for eight years and seven months.

DavidMcmul len ,35, assaulted the toddler by inflicting “blunt force trauma” to his abdomen at a property in Cam bus lang, South Lanarkshire, on 21 December 2016.

He was found guilty following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow. Lord Armstrong said the trial had heard the force necessary to cause that type of injury was equivalent to a road traffic accident.