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Peter Bowditch
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The support for this killer has already started, and the
vaccines are being blamed.
32 broken bones, some from previous assaults, Fractured
skull. If you did this to a dog there would be lynch mob. Do
it to a child and anti-vaccination liars will use it in
their foul propaganda.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2627093
1:06pm (UK) Father Murdered Baby after Series of Attacks,
Court Told
By Martin Halfpenny, PA News
A father murdered his 10-week-old daughter by banging her
head and shaking her in the culmination of a series of
attacks which left the child suffering 32 fractures, a court
was told today.
Charlotte Latta suffered extensive brain damage after the
back of her head was banged on a solid surface and she was
shaken violently by her father, Mark Latta, 41, on December
2, 2001, Winchester Crown Court heard.
Jamie Gibbons QC, prosecuting, told the jury that Latta was
feeding his daughter upstairs in their detached four bedroom
house in Byron Close, Bishop’s Waltham, Hants, when it is
alleged he lost his temper and attacked his daughter while
the rest of the family sat down to Sunday lunch.
Mr Gibbons said: “She may well have been difficult about
feeding and he lost his temper, he banged her head hard
against a solid surface of some kind and shook her.”
Charlotte was taken to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital
in Winchester where doctors found she had a fractured skull
and pressure from blood in the brain. A skeletal scan
showed that she had 32 fractures to her ribs, limbs and
collar bone.
Mr Gibbons said that some of these were old injuries and
alleged that Latta had attacked Charlotte at least three
times, including the time he murdered her.
“It became clear to the doctors that in the past she had
been repeatedly and cruelly mistreated by someone who had
used considerable and overwhelming force,” he said.
“She had been squeezed with such force her ribs had
fractured.
“Just imagine how hard you would have to squeeze a baby to
fracture her ribs,” he said to the jury.
The court heard that that wealthy businessman and his
now wife Sharon had had problems with Charlotte’s
feeding and she had spent several nights in hospital
during November 2001.
On the day of the alleged murder, Latta had taken her to the
Royal Hampshire County Hospital for a check-up and she had
been fine.
Mr Gibbons explained to the jury that very few people looked
after Charlotte and, if they discounted that the other
carers, a stranger or hospital staff had attacked her more
than once then as a process of elimination it must
ultimately come to her father as the murderer.
Mr Gibbons explained that the banging of the head on a solid
surface and the shaking had been “extreme violence”. He said
that it might not have been Latta’s intention to kill his
daughter but he’d intended her considerable harm, even if he
regretted it.
The court heard that Latta and his wife were well off
and lived in a detached four bedroom property, had a
nanny and drove a BMW and an Audi TT but Mr Gibbons
said: “Respectability notwithstanding, this baby was
being abused.”
Mr Gibbons told the jury that Charlotte’s head injuries were
so severe she was dying and at 6pm on December 4, 2001 her
life support machine was switched off.
Latta was then arrested and interviewed at length. He told
detectives nothing strange or untoward had happened to his
daughter as he fed her alone upstairs.
He said that she was feeding fine until, he told detectives,
she “spluttered and some of the milk came out of her mouth
in a fine spray. Almost instantly her eyes started to shut.
I remember thinking she ’cannot go to sleep’, so I took the
bottle out of her mouth and she started to make a strange
deep wheezing sound and I saw her eyeballs roll back into
her head and she started to go limp. I called out, ’Sharon,
Sharon, come upstairs there is something wrong, something
wrong with Charlotte’.”
But Mr Gibbons told the jury: “The bit the defendant missed
out was the cause of all this. He knew perfectly well he had
banged her head, probably against the floor. Babies do not
suddenly keel over with bruised scalps out of the blue.”
He also told the jury that Charlotte had been cuddled by her
grandmother and aunt in the moments before she was taken
upstairs by Latta and she had been fine.
He said it was important to remember “how suddenly and
dramatically Charlotte’s condition changed after going
upstairs with the defendant and coming down unconscious a
short time later”.
He said that if Charlotte had been banged against a solid
surface she would have become immediately ill. Her colour
would have changed, there would have been abnormalities of
colour, she would have gone floppy, she would have vomited
and she would have made abnormal noises. He said all these
things had happened to Charlotte.
Mr Gibbons told the court that the old rib fractures to
Charlotte were between four days and eight weeks old and
that the fractures to her arms and legs, which he had said
had been caused by twisting them, were between seven days
and four weeks old.
In a short opening address to the jury, defence counsel,
Anthony Jennings, QC, said that Latta was a loving and
committed father who had never harmed his child. He
explained that 13 professionals had examined Charlotte
during her brief life and Latta had shown no hesitation
about this and had in fact told many they had not examined
her fully enough.
Latta, formally of Byron Avenue, Bishop’s Waltham, Hants,
denies murder and two counts of causing grievous bodily harm
with intent to Charlotte, between October 1 and December 2,
2001. The trial, which is expected to take five weeks,
continues.
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Peter Bowditch
The Millenium Project http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles
The Green Light http://www.ratbags.com/greenlight
and The New Improved Quintessence of the Loon with added Vitamins and C-Q10 http://www.ratbags.com/loon
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vaccines are being blamed.
32 broken bones, some from previous assaults, Fractured
skull. If you did this to a dog there would be lynch mob. Do
it to a child and anti-vaccination liars will use it in
their foul propaganda.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2627093
1:06pm (UK) Father Murdered Baby after Series of Attacks,
Court Told
By Martin Halfpenny, PA News
A father murdered his 10-week-old daughter by banging her
head and shaking her in the culmination of a series of
attacks which left the child suffering 32 fractures, a court
was told today.
Charlotte Latta suffered extensive brain damage after the
back of her head was banged on a solid surface and she was
shaken violently by her father, Mark Latta, 41, on December
2, 2001, Winchester Crown Court heard.
Jamie Gibbons QC, prosecuting, told the jury that Latta was
feeding his daughter upstairs in their detached four bedroom
house in Byron Close, Bishop’s Waltham, Hants, when it is
alleged he lost his temper and attacked his daughter while
the rest of the family sat down to Sunday lunch.
Mr Gibbons said: “She may well have been difficult about
feeding and he lost his temper, he banged her head hard
against a solid surface of some kind and shook her.”
Charlotte was taken to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital
in Winchester where doctors found she had a fractured skull
and pressure from blood in the brain. A skeletal scan
showed that she had 32 fractures to her ribs, limbs and
collar bone.
Mr Gibbons said that some of these were old injuries and
alleged that Latta had attacked Charlotte at least three
times, including the time he murdered her.
“It became clear to the doctors that in the past she had
been repeatedly and cruelly mistreated by someone who had
used considerable and overwhelming force,” he said.
“She had been squeezed with such force her ribs had
fractured.
“Just imagine how hard you would have to squeeze a baby to
fracture her ribs,” he said to the jury.
The court heard that that wealthy businessman and his
now wife Sharon had had problems with Charlotte’s
feeding and she had spent several nights in hospital
during November 2001.
On the day of the alleged murder, Latta had taken her to the
Royal Hampshire County Hospital for a check-up and she had
been fine.
Mr Gibbons explained to the jury that very few people looked
after Charlotte and, if they discounted that the other
carers, a stranger or hospital staff had attacked her more
than once then as a process of elimination it must
ultimately come to her father as the murderer.
Mr Gibbons explained that the banging of the head on a solid
surface and the shaking had been “extreme violence”. He said
that it might not have been Latta’s intention to kill his
daughter but he’d intended her considerable harm, even if he
regretted it.
The court heard that Latta and his wife were well off
and lived in a detached four bedroom property, had a
nanny and drove a BMW and an Audi TT but Mr Gibbons
said: “Respectability notwithstanding, this baby was
being abused.”
Mr Gibbons told the jury that Charlotte’s head injuries were
so severe she was dying and at 6pm on December 4, 2001 her
life support machine was switched off.
Latta was then arrested and interviewed at length. He told
detectives nothing strange or untoward had happened to his
daughter as he fed her alone upstairs.
He said that she was feeding fine until, he told detectives,
she “spluttered and some of the milk came out of her mouth
in a fine spray. Almost instantly her eyes started to shut.
I remember thinking she ’cannot go to sleep’, so I took the
bottle out of her mouth and she started to make a strange
deep wheezing sound and I saw her eyeballs roll back into
her head and she started to go limp. I called out, ’Sharon,
Sharon, come upstairs there is something wrong, something
wrong with Charlotte’.”
But Mr Gibbons told the jury: “The bit the defendant missed
out was the cause of all this. He knew perfectly well he had
banged her head, probably against the floor. Babies do not
suddenly keel over with bruised scalps out of the blue.”
He also told the jury that Charlotte had been cuddled by her
grandmother and aunt in the moments before she was taken
upstairs by Latta and she had been fine.
He said it was important to remember “how suddenly and
dramatically Charlotte’s condition changed after going
upstairs with the defendant and coming down unconscious a
short time later”.
He said that if Charlotte had been banged against a solid
surface she would have become immediately ill. Her colour
would have changed, there would have been abnormalities of
colour, she would have gone floppy, she would have vomited
and she would have made abnormal noises. He said all these
things had happened to Charlotte.
Mr Gibbons told the court that the old rib fractures to
Charlotte were between four days and eight weeks old and
that the fractures to her arms and legs, which he had said
had been caused by twisting them, were between seven days
and four weeks old.
In a short opening address to the jury, defence counsel,
Anthony Jennings, QC, said that Latta was a loving and
committed father who had never harmed his child. He
explained that 13 professionals had examined Charlotte
during her brief life and Latta had shown no hesitation
about this and had in fact told many they had not examined
her fully enough.
Latta, formally of Byron Avenue, Bishop’s Waltham, Hants,
denies murder and two counts of causing grievous bodily harm
with intent to Charlotte, between October 1 and December 2,
2001. The trial, which is expected to take five weeks,
continues.
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Peter Bowditch
The Millenium Project http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles
The Green Light http://www.ratbags.com/greenlight
and The New Improved Quintessence of the Loon with added Vitamins and C-Q10 http://www.ratbags.com/loon
To email me use my first name only at ratbags.com