Paul Marsh jailed for killing Jessica Dalgleish after she refused to eat lunch

A man who killed his lady friend’s three-year-extinct disabled daughter after she refused to devour her lunch has been jailed for 11 years.

Paul Marsh, 27, of Folkestone, Kent, inflicted catastrophic injuries on Jessica Dalgleish after he became offended and frustrated, a court heard.

He then tried to veil up the attack, claiming she’d fallen down the stairs.

Marsh was once convicted of diminutive one cruelty and manslaughter at a outdated hearing at Maidstone Crown Court docket.

Jessica died in health center on Christmas Eve in 2019.

The court heard Marsh, a care employee, had thrown her very roughly and with important force, so her head hit a laborious surface, that can were the picket bars of her cot, the bottom, or the banister.

Jessica’s mother called Marsh an “animal” and a “monster” in her victim impact observation.

“I jog that the monster who took her suffers daily of his uncomfortable existence,” she acknowledged.

“I might perhaps no longer ever enhance from shedding my diminutive one, Jessica was once a delicate-weight on the earth.”

Sentencing Marsh, the honourable Mr Justice Cavanagh acknowledged: “The total family mourns the existence that Jessica is just not any longer going to now have, and suffers from the trauma of gleaming how she died.

“It’s clear that the death of this qualified miniature diminutive one has brought on gigantic disaster and suffering to quite a lot of alternative folks.”

Marsh was once sentenced to 9 years in jail for manslaughter and a additional two years for diminutive one cruelty, to jog consecutively.

After Marsh was once jailed, Det Ch Insp Neil Kimber, from Kent Police, acknowledged: “Here’s a tragic case all over which a younger lady has been robbed of her existence earlier than it had actually begun.

“Marsh was once reluctant to come by medical attention for Jessica on the day he inflicted these injuries and he has since sought to evade justice by altering his memoir and lying about what with out a doubt came about on that day.”

The court heard Marsh had labored as a enhance assistant in a dwelling for adults with profound discovering out difficulties.

But jurors had been advised that as an different of calling 999, Marsh straight tried to veil up what he had completed.

Marsh, who was once first-attend trained, had furthermore moved her when he knew he should always not, to assist his untrue memoir that Jessica had fallen down the stairs, the think acknowledged.

Following the hearing, a Kent County Council spokesman acknowledged the cases surrounding Jessica’s death had been the subject of a multi-disciplinary overview in January 2020 by the Kent Safeguarding Kids Multiagency Partnership.

He acknowledged the educational from the overview had already been fed into obliging training, and a additional chronicle was once anticipated early subsequent year.

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