Man who killed baby son was known risk

A SADISTIC father battered and burned his son to death because he was jealous of the attention the boy's mother gave the baby.

Man who killed baby son was known risk

As Paul O'Neil began a minimum 22-year jail term for murdering his son Aaron, it emerged that social services and health staff had known he posed a risk to children but did little to intervene.

Social services had looked into the jobless father-of-six's violent past in May 2004, nine months before he killed his three-month-old son.

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