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The father of a four-week-old baby who was found lifeless in his cot with 37 fractures and died eight days after his neck was 'snapped' has been jailed for life.
Michael Davis, 29, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years for murdering his four-week-old son Ollie Davis, who was left to die from a broken neck at his Leicester home.
Ollie Davies was pronounced dead at 7.30am on October 21, 2017, after being discovered in a bedroom he shared with his parents in Upper Temple Walk, Leicester.
Jurors cleared Ollie's mother, Kayleigh Driver, of murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent, but found her guilty of charges of causing or allowing the death of a child and causing or allowing serious physical injury.
Ollie Davis was pronounced dead after being found lifeless in his bedroom in 2017
Davis, 29, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years for murdering his son
A jury at Leicester Crown Court heard how the infant had sustained 22 broken ribs, as well as fractures to his skull, collar bone, both arms and all the joints in his four limbs before he arrived at Leicester Royal Infirmary on the day of his death.
The neck injury, sustained about four days before his death, was ruled to be the fatal injury by pathologists.
Crown Counsel Jonas Hankin KC says the prosecution believes that Ollie was subjected to serious physical abuse which 'most likely took place during the last 10 days of his life'.
In his police interviews, Davis denied having ever harmed Ollie. He told officers about discovering his son's still body at the home in Upper Temple Walk, Beaumont Leys, Leicester, on the
