Overview

• Liverpool Crown Court sentenced Mehmet Tufan, 30, after he admitted manslaughter over the death of his son, Leo Williams.
• Judge Andrew Menary KC reduced the sentence to six and a half years to reflect a previous two-year term imposed in 2019 for grievous bodily harm.
• Paramedics found five-week-old Leo unresponsive in Kirkby on April 14, 2018, resuscitated him, and he was later diagnosed with extensive brain injury, spinal bleeding, and retinal haemorrhages at Alder Hey.
• Prosecutors said Tufan delayed calling for help for at least 20 minutes, first claimed a hair was in the baby’s throat, then confessed to shaking him for about a minute and throwing him onto a bed.
• Leo lived with severe disabilities and died in December 2022 at age four, and his mother delivered a victim impact statement describing lasting grief.