A police officer tells a court how he tried in vain to perform CPR on an eight-week-old baby
The officer was giving evidence at a trial of a mother charged with the murder of her baby boy and attempted murder of her two-year old daughter
The children's mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, accepted she stabbed the two children, but denies the two charges against her.A jury of six men and six women at Belfast Crown Court were told by Judge Donna McColgan KC that their job was to determine what the accused's state of mind was when she attacked her two children.
The court heard the officer then used a metal battering ram, known as an enforcer, to gain entry to the property.When asked by Crown prosecutor Richard Weir KC what happened next, the police officer said: "I heard a young child crying. It was coming from the direction of the living room.The officer then described seeing the woman holding a young girl against her chest and both parties having blood on them.
The officer said he continued CPR "for a few minutes" and after the paramedics arrived he carried on "until the ambulance was ready to take him to the hospital".
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