Crying toddler 'shot with air rifle to shut him up'

A crying toddler was seriously injured when he was shot in the head with an air rifle, a court has heard.

Harry Studley was just 18 months old when Jordan Walters pointed the weapon at him and pulled the trigger in July last year.

Walters's partner, Emma Horseman, 24, is alleged to have told him: "Shoot Harry, just to frighten him, to shut him up, shoot it at Harry."

Bristol Crown Court heard that Walters has already admitted unlawfully and maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on Harry while mother-of-two Horseman is accused of the same charge on the basis that she aided or abetted an offence.

Andrew Macfarlane, prosecuting, told the court: "The circumstances of this case are both simple and horrifying.

"Parents in a block of flats in Bristol meet up on a Friday afternoon with their children and within the hour a baby is fighting for its life and is airlifted to hospital.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/30/crying-toddler-shot-air-rifle-shut/

What a pair of stupid knobs.

That beautiful baby.
Lets hope the sentence will fit the crime, and when they are released hopefully they wont have any more babies to torture.

What a pity compulsory sterilisation isn't legal for morons like this.

Syl wrote:That beautiful baby.
Lets hope the sentence will fit the crime, and when they are released hopefully they wont have any more babies to torture.

What a pity compulsory sterilisation isn't legal for morons like this.

sterilize them with an air rifle