Baby's haemorrhages and brain trauma 'consistent with non-accidental injury'

The trial of a man accused of murdering his ex-fiancée’s baby has heard that the pattern of haemorrhages in the child’s eyes in conjunction with brain trauma was “consistent with non-accidental injury.”

Philip Doyle (aged 34) of Tinakilly, Aughrim, Co Wicklow has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to murdering three-and-a-half-month-old Ross Murphy at an address Creagh Demesne, Gorey, Co Wexford on April 5, 2005.