Life for grandfather who murdered baby
A MAN who conned his daughter into thinking he was dying of cancer has been jailed for at least 25 years for murdering her five-week-old baby.
Mark Jones, 45, carried out a brutal attack on granddaughter Amelia while babysitting for her mother Sarah, 26, at her home in Pontnewydd, South Wales, when she went to the cinema in November 2012.
Sentencing him to life with a minimum of 25 years, Judge Wyn Williams said Jones had shown no remorse for his “wicked and despicable” actions.
He told Jones: “You have not shown a shred of remorse... and have only ever been concerned about yourself.”
In her victim impact statement, Sarah Jones said that her father was now dead to her. A melia suffered a catastrophic bleed to the brain as well as having fractures to her skull, ribs and leg.
She died 48 hours later in hospital aged just 41 days.
E x p er t s b el ieve she received a serious blow to the head, as well as being violently shaken.
The court heard that Jones was a serial liar.
He had deceived his daughter for more than a year into thinking he was seriously ill with cancer, pretending to pass out in front of her and hobbling around on a crutch with what appeared to be plastic tubes attached to his chest.
Jones had claimed that Amelia’s death had been a tragic accident after he dropped her on two separate nights.