‘MERRY CHRISTMAS’, SAID CAERPHILLY CHILD-KILLER DA

‘MERRY CHRISTMAS’, SAID CAERPHILLY CHILD-KILLER DAVID TRACY
GAUT AS THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE TODAY (MONDAY) DISMISSED HIS APPEAL
AGAINST CONVICTION.

GAUT, 22, OF BUXTON COURT, WAS JAILED FOR LIFE AT CARDIFF CROWN
COURT IN JULY FOR MURDERING 15-MONTH-OLD CHI MING SHEK, THE YOUNGER

OF HIS GIRLFRIEND JANE’S TWO CHILDREN.

THE CRIMINAL APPEAL COURT IN LONDON WAS TOLD THAT GAUT WAS LEFT

ALONE WITH THE BOYS — ONE AGED TWO AND A HALF NICKNAMED ‘GEORGIE’,

THE OTHER NICKNAMED ‘MARKY’ — WHEN JANE WENT OUT WITH A GIRLFRIEND

ON THE NIGHT OF FEBRUARY 28, 1985.

WHEN SHE RETURNED HE TOLD HER THE CHILDREN WERE ‘ALL RIGHT’
BUT NEXT MORNING SHE FOUND ‘MARKY’ DEAD ON HIS BEDROOM FLOOR.

‘HE HAD A FRACTURED SKULL AND ARM, GRAVE INTERNAL INJURIES,
TEARING OF LIVER AND SPLEEN, INJURY TO THE BOWEL AND EXTENSIVE

BRUISING’, SAID THE JUDGE LORD LANE.

AND BLISTERING TO THE CHILD’S LEFT FOOT COULD ONLY HAVE BEEN

CAUSED BY AN ELECTRIC IRON, THE COURT WAS TOLD.

LORD LANE SAID GAUT, WHO DID NOT GIVE EVIDENCE AT HIS TRIAL,
TOLD POLICE THAT ‘MARKY’ HAD COME DOWNSTAIRS AFTER TWICE BEING PUT
BACK INTO HIS COT.

GAUT SAID HE LOST HIS TEMPER, SMACKED THE CHILD, PUT HIM ON TOP

OF THE STAIRS AND ‘KICKED HIM UP THE BACKSIDE’.

‘HE LOOKED DROWSY.

HE MIGHT HAVE BANGED HIS HEAD ON THE

STAIRS AND I GAVE HIM THE KISS OF LIFE’, GAUT TOLD POLICE.

THE CHILD WAS FOUND WITH A SMALL CHEST OF DRAWERS ACROSS HIS

LEGS DONE IN AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE IT LOOK AS THOUGH THE CHILD HAD
SUFFERED AN ACCIDENT.

END

MEMO: WE HAVE NO MORE DETAILS ON THE ADDRESS OF GAUT APART FROM

BUXTON COURT.