Mum of Redcar baby gives evidence in trial of murder-accused partner

Bradley Thomas has denied inflicting a fatal brain injury when he was giving Emmerson Oak Thomas a feed during the night.

The 23-year-old’s partner of almost two years said she was awoken by Thomas screaming for help when their three-month-old son went limp.

The jury at Teesside Crown Court watched a police video interview of the baby’s mother while Emmerson was being treated at Newcastle’s RVI hospital.

She told officers Thomas ‘screamed’ for help and when she came downstairs, she found her son breathing in an unusual manner before his face turned white and lips turned blue.

The clearly distressed young mother said it felt like an ‘eternity’ for paramedics to arrive at their home and take over CPR.

Thomas previously told jurors he had fallen asleep with Emmerson on his knee and the baby must have slipped to the floor.

Toby Hedworth KC, prosecuting, cross-examined the evidence of the child’s mother.

He asked if she believed Thomas had ‘lost his temper and done something bad’, to which she simply replied ‘no’.

Earlier in the trial, jurors had heard how the “deeply unconscious” boy was taken to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough where a scan revealed brain injuries consistent with being shaken.

On footage shown to the jury, the child was seen to be making unusual arm gestures while laid on a changing mat before he became limp and lifeless.

Pathologist Dr Jennifer Bolton said the bleeding on the brain was consistent with blunt force injuries caused by excessive and vigorous shaking.

Thomas, of Grasmere Road, Redcar, denies murder and his trial continues.