Accused child killer was convicted of battering another toddler

The grandmother of an accused child killer told a court she thought he had ‘learnt a lesson’ after he was jailed for battering a toddler in 2006. Kevin Eves, 37, allegedly inflicted a ‘catalogue of violence’ on little Harper Denton before murdering her at the family home in Wixams, Beds. Police were called to the address after Harper’s mother Cherinea Denton, 34, called 999 saying: ‘My baby is not breathing,’ shortly after 6am on 12 June last year. Baby Harper…