Juror wipes away tears as toddler's injuries are described in court

PAIR DENY MURDER OF THEIR TWO-YEAR-OLD GRANDSON

- By ELEANOR BARLOW

A JUROR wiped away tears as details of the injuries sustained by a two-year-old boy who was allegedly murdered by his grandparents were detailed to a court.

Ethan Ives-Griffiths died on August 16 2021, two days after he collapsed with a fatal head injury at the home of his grandparents, Michael Ives, 47, and Kerry Ives, 46, in Flintshire.

In her closing speech at Mold Crown Court yesterday, Caroline Rees KC, prosecuting, said the toddler suffered ill treatment and neglect at the hands of the people who he 'should have been able to trust to care for him the most' - his grandparents and his mother Shannon Ives, 28.

She pointed out the contrast between a picture of Ethan from April 2021, as a 'happy, smiling little boy with chubby cheeks' and footage of him taken from cameras in the back garden of the home in Garden City in the weeks before his death.