BBC News, South East
A father has been found guilty of killing his daughter, when he told a court that he could not remember what happened at night, he suffered serious injuries.
Thomas Holford accepted Everlet Strawud’s Manslator after a five-week child Had to face “violent tremors” When he shared with her in the bedroom alone with her in Ramsgate with her teenage mother.
The court earlier heard how Holford, 25, Claimed that he had no memory of the incidentAnd he smoked several cannabis couples in the evening when he attacked his daughter.
In the Cantorbury Crown Court, the jury found him guilty of murder and caused real physical damage. He will be sentenced on Friday.
Everleg died when his life support machine was closed a year after the attack in April 2021, which left her with severe injuries to her brain, ribs and legs.
‘Really serious disadvantage’
During the trial, the defense barrister Joe Martin Casey told the canterbury Crown Court that Holford did not show any plan, predetermined or motive before killing his daughter.
She said: “This cake-hand, canbis-fledgled youth will try everything she usually does to work as to why she was crying and then she would move forward to stop crying.”
But prosecution barrister Eloise Marshal Casey told the court that Holford “would know that he really causes serious harm to the child with” extreme force “.
“She is causing her ribs to break up. Even this acting in itself is enough to show that she really intends for serious losses.”