Man accused of baby murder insists he would ‘never hurt a child’

The alleged killer of a baby boy told police he found him lying face down on his bedroom floor after he heard a ‘bang and a little squeal’. Jacob Lennon was 15 months old when he was taken to hospital from the family home in Putney, southwest London, with serious head injuries on 26 August 2019. A post-mortem examination found injuries consistent with horrendous long-term abuse. Jacob’s eyes were so swollen he could not open them and he ‘looked like…