{"id":392343,"date":"2026-01-27T02:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392343\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:43:12","slug":"staffordshire-babys-bleeding-akin-to-being-in-high-speed-crash-trial-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392343\/","title":{"rendered":"Staffordshire baby&#8217;s bleeding akin to being in high speed crash, trial told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A five-week-old baby who was allegedly killed by her parents had bleeding at the back of her eyes, of the type normally seen when a child has been in a high-speed crash, a trial has been told<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sean Jefferson, of Birch Court, Walsall, and Amy Clarke, of Enots Close, Lichfield, both deny murder and causing or allowing the death of a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Monday, Stafford Crown Court heard Clarke, 34, was struggling in the run up to baby Darcy&#8217;s death and that she had engaged in a number of heated exchanges with Jefferson, 35.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These included text messages about how she was exhausted and felt he was not supporting her, the court heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A five-week-old baby who was allegedly killed by her parents had bleeding at the back of her eyes,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-392343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}