Greg Unwin, led by Allison Summers KC and instructed by Romana Khan of Solomons Solicitors, is representing a father the Central Criminal Court who denies murdering his son.
The child, born eight weeks premature, was four months old when he was taken to hospital in December 2007 with a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain and a fractured arm and ribs. In 2009 the father pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent, writing to the sentencing judge that he “never intended for all this to happen”. He received a sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP). After his eventual release he was deported to Germany where he and the mother remained married and had a new baby together.
The injured child developed cerebral palsy and lived in foster care the ensuing years until he died in December 2021, aged 14. No extradition proceedings were instigated but the father was