At last I can grieve for little Tommy-Lee

The child’s body was only returned to Kelly Whitworth in the last few weeks by the defence allowing her to finally make arrangements for the baby’s funeral.

Hull dad guilty of killing baby son by ‘shaking or throwing’

As well as being arrested for a crime she did not commit and being subjected to abuse from Laverick’s family and associates, which continued throughout the court case, she has only been allowed to see her older son an hour three times a week.

The 23-year-old said now the trial was over she would be able to “lay my son to rest and grieve properly “for the first time.”

She said: “I’ve never been through something so heartbreaking and devastating; my son’s dying has ripped my world apart, and my eldest son was taken away from me because of what Laverick did.”

In a witness statement read to the court she said sitting through the forensic evidence and listening to details of her son’s injuries had been a horrific ordeal.

Kelly’s brother Andrew Smith said Laverick had always seen him as a threat “as a male”: “After it all happened it seemed to me that he didn’t want her out of his sight for a minute.”

Even on the first anniversary of the child’s death Laverick had shouted profanities at her the street.

Mr Smith said: “The sort of person Laverick is he likes to segregate people.

“He would grind her down, say things like: ‘You will never get anyone else you *****, your friends don’t bother with you, he was really nasty, making her believe things like that.

“They had a child and he didn’t take well to her having another. They were financially strapped. He did suggest termination.

“At the end of the day I think it has just been a split-second thing and he shook the baby and it is all gone down-hill from there.

“It has been a snowball of lies.”

Laverick had given different stories of what happened to different people, including stumbling over potholes on the way to hospital. Mr Smith said: “I have walked that street thousands of times and there is no evidence of potholes.

“Then it went from the pothole theory to all of a sudden ‘my trousers fell down. There was no evidence whatsoever on the CCTV of him falling down.”