{UAH} Dylan Tiffin-Brown: Northampton father jailed for 24 years for beating his two-year-old son to death

Dylan Tiffin-Brown: Northampton father jailed for 24 years for beating his two-year-old son to death

Raphael Kennedy (left) battered his son to death. Credit: Northamptonshire Police

A man from Northampton has been jailed for a minimum of 24 years for beating his two-year-old son to death in a fit of temper.

Dylan Tiffin-Brown died after he was assaulted last December at his father's flat in Arthur Street.

The toddler suffered 39 injuries in total to his head, face, neck, torso and limbs, and also had cocaine in his system.

Dylan was screaming in agony for an hour or more before his father, Raphael Kennedy, called for an ambulance, and that delay contributed to his death, the court heard.

When Dylan was eventually taken to hospital, Kennedy initially told staff that he had "tripped and fell over".

Kennedy, 31, was found guilty of his murder earlier this month.

The attack happened in Arthur Street last December. Credit: ITV News Anglia

Sentencing him to life, Mrs Justice Sue Carr told Kennedy: "In the morning of the Friday 15 December 2017 you woke late by reference to Dylan's normal routine, at 10am.

"By this time, Dylan would have been awake for a few hours, left to his own devices to roam in a flat which contained Class A drugs and your drugs paraphernalia.

"Whatever triggered the assault, you lost your temper with him and inflicted a savage and sustained attack on him.

"You undoubtedly beat Dylan in a fit of anger and/or stress so hard as to fracture his ribs and tear his liver. You used some sort of object to beat his arms. The expert evidence confirmed that injuries could have been inflicted in a short period of time, but they were multiple and all over his body, including his face and arms.

"Dylan would have been in agony, bewildered and terrified. Slowly his condition would have deteriorated before your eyes, going from screaming and crying to curling up and trying to avoid movement."

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Last updated Tue 30 Oct 2018

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