Lancashire man jailed for murdering his baby son
Kane Kennedy jailed for life for smothering 7-month old Oskar to death.
A father from Lancashire who smothered his seven-month-old son to death after he inflicted `"frankly obscene'' injuries to the child has been jailed for life.
Kane Kennedy, 20, forcibly got hold of Oskar Jobey-Kennedy's testicles, and then went on to push his fingers down the throat of the defenceless baby - before finally placing his hand over Oskar's mouth at the family home in Morecambe.
Kennedy moved his hand over his own mouth in shock at Preston Crown Court as he was told he must serve a minimum of 18 years in detention before he can be considered for parole.
The regular cannabis smoker was said to have been `"bad-tempered'' when he could not get hold of the drug and argued regularly with Oskar's mother, Tia Jobey, 19.
Sentencing, Mr Justice Davis told the defendant:
> Oskar was seven months old when he was killed by you. Obviously he depended on those who had charge of his care to protect him and in his case both of those with immediate responsibility failed him.> > > >His mother knew that he was at serious risk and she did nothing adequate to protect him.> > > > Her culpability pales into insignificance compared to you. You are the one, on the jury's verdict, that killed that tiny baby.> > > >I am quite satisfied that what you did in the early hours of October 1 2015 was not a single isolated act ... you had deliberately ill-treated that child in the days and weeks prior to his death.''
Last week, Kennedy, formerly of Harewood Avenue, Heysham, was convicted by a jury of murder. He had denied murder and manslaughter.
Following conviction, detectives investigating the case described the injuries inflicted on Oskar as frankly obscene''.
Jobey, 19, of Balmoral Road, Morecambe, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to causing or allowing the death of a child and was sentenced last week to 30 months in a young offender institution.
Paramedics were called to the Balmoral Road address shortly before 9am on October 1 last year to a report that Oskar had been found unresponsive.
He was taken to Royal Lancaster Infirmary but was pronounced dead soon after arrival.
A catalogue of non-accidental injuries were identified in the post-mortem examination, with a total of 13 marks to his face and neck.