Teh One Who Knocks
01-05-2017, 12:38 PM
Richard Hartley-Parkinson for Metro.co.uk
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A man who tortured his five-week-old daughter so badly she will need a wheelchair for life blamed the abuse – on a ghost.
Rocky Uzzell, 29, left baby Isabelle with ‘catastrophic injuries’ after beating her so severely she is unlikely to survive far into adulthood.
Along with his partner Katherine Prigmore, 24, they subjected their child to torturous abuse and serious physical harm, some of which they filmed.
Shockingly, even when their child lay badly injured in hospital the couple were overheard saying it would give them chance to go for a Nandos.
Uzzell was jailed for eight and a half years while Prigmore was sentenced to two years and four months in prison at Northampton Crown Court in December.
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The shameless pair both pleaded guilty to causing or allowing a child to suffer serious physical harm in September last year.
Yesterday it emerged Uzzell claimed a ‘ghost-like alter ego’ had at times ‘taken over his body since he was a child’ making him try to ‘get rid’ of baby Isabelle.
Uzzell – who hit, dropped, squeezed and strangled Isabelle – claimed he ‘lost count of how many times she was shaken’.
The details of a previous family court hearing in May 2015 have now been revealed by Mr Justice Keehan who described the case as ‘chilling’.
But the judge said Uzzell had assaulted the little girl at least six times – and that the alter ego was a ‘ruse’.
He said that Uzzell might have created the alter ego as an ‘imaginary protector’ but evidence showed that it was the man who had hurt Isabelle and not a ghost.
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The judge found that there was a ‘sadistic element’ to the abuse that left the baby girl confined to a wheelchair and needing to be fed through a tube.
Mr Justice Keehan, who oversaw the High Court litigation, has now decided that evidence heard behind closed doors can be made public because criminal proceedings have ended.
Their trial had heard how the baby’s shocking injuries came to light after paramedics were called to their home in Kettering, Northants., on March 20, 2014.
Prigmore called emergency services reporting that the baby’s limbs had ‘gone limp’ and that the child was ‘vomiting’.
But a court heard when medics attended the warped couple appeared more concerned it was Uzzell’s birthday that day.
Paramedics rushed Isabelle to Kettering General Hospital after first resuscitating the infant at the property.
Isabelle was later transferred to Leicester Royal Infirmary where she remained in intensive care.
An MRI scan revealed swelling in the brain and that her wrist had been over-extended.
Further evidence of injuries were found consistent with squeezing and she also had a fractured leg, tibia and right forearm.
Police seized the couple’s mobile phones and also found a shocking video showing Uzzell shaking the child on the device.
Prosecutor Victoria Rose said one video showed ‘Mr Uzzell shaking and moving Isobelle around forcibly.’
She added: ‘You can hear laughter in the background. That laughter is Miss Prigmore.’
Further footage showed a cover being placed over the baby’s head while she was being sick.
Sentencing at the time, Judge Rupert Mayo described the harm as ‘inexcusable and deliberate’ and said the couple had a ‘warped view of parenting’.
http://i.imgur.com/o83Fjmyl.jpg
A man who tortured his five-week-old daughter so badly she will need a wheelchair for life blamed the abuse – on a ghost.
Rocky Uzzell, 29, left baby Isabelle with ‘catastrophic injuries’ after beating her so severely she is unlikely to survive far into adulthood.
Along with his partner Katherine Prigmore, 24, they subjected their child to torturous abuse and serious physical harm, some of which they filmed.
Shockingly, even when their child lay badly injured in hospital the couple were overheard saying it would give them chance to go for a Nandos.
Uzzell was jailed for eight and a half years while Prigmore was sentenced to two years and four months in prison at Northampton Crown Court in December.
http://i.imgur.com/G3szUbVl.jpg
The shameless pair both pleaded guilty to causing or allowing a child to suffer serious physical harm in September last year.
Yesterday it emerged Uzzell claimed a ‘ghost-like alter ego’ had at times ‘taken over his body since he was a child’ making him try to ‘get rid’ of baby Isabelle.
Uzzell – who hit, dropped, squeezed and strangled Isabelle – claimed he ‘lost count of how many times she was shaken’.
The details of a previous family court hearing in May 2015 have now been revealed by Mr Justice Keehan who described the case as ‘chilling’.
But the judge said Uzzell had assaulted the little girl at least six times – and that the alter ego was a ‘ruse’.
He said that Uzzell might have created the alter ego as an ‘imaginary protector’ but evidence showed that it was the man who had hurt Isabelle and not a ghost.
http://i.imgur.com/IA0jZrxl.jpg
The judge found that there was a ‘sadistic element’ to the abuse that left the baby girl confined to a wheelchair and needing to be fed through a tube.
Mr Justice Keehan, who oversaw the High Court litigation, has now decided that evidence heard behind closed doors can be made public because criminal proceedings have ended.
Their trial had heard how the baby’s shocking injuries came to light after paramedics were called to their home in Kettering, Northants., on March 20, 2014.
Prigmore called emergency services reporting that the baby’s limbs had ‘gone limp’ and that the child was ‘vomiting’.
But a court heard when medics attended the warped couple appeared more concerned it was Uzzell’s birthday that day.
Paramedics rushed Isabelle to Kettering General Hospital after first resuscitating the infant at the property.
Isabelle was later transferred to Leicester Royal Infirmary where she remained in intensive care.
An MRI scan revealed swelling in the brain and that her wrist had been over-extended.
Further evidence of injuries were found consistent with squeezing and she also had a fractured leg, tibia and right forearm.
Police seized the couple’s mobile phones and also found a shocking video showing Uzzell shaking the child on the device.
Prosecutor Victoria Rose said one video showed ‘Mr Uzzell shaking and moving Isobelle around forcibly.’
She added: ‘You can hear laughter in the background. That laughter is Miss Prigmore.’
Further footage showed a cover being placed over the baby’s head while she was being sick.
Sentencing at the time, Judge Rupert Mayo described the harm as ‘inexcusable and deliberate’ and said the couple had a ‘warped view of parenting’.