Babysitter, 33, killed girlfriend's baby by dropping him on the floor and smashing his head against a wall because he wouldn't stop crying !!!!!!

                            A man who murdered his girlfriend's 18-month-old son 

                            Baby Ashley Johnson was murdered by the man who had been left to care for him

A man who murdered his girlfriend's 18-month-old son because he was crying has been jailed for life.

Scott Hepburn, 33, told partner Samantha Knox that her baby boy was asleep to try to cover up his crime.

But little Ashley Johnson had been attacked by Hepburn as he babysat for Miss Knox for one hour on the evening of January 27 this year.

Hepburn threw Ashley on the floor from a height of three feet and smashed him against a wall twice before arranging the semi-conscious child in his cot, as if he were sleeping.

He then went downstairs to watch television. Miss Knox, his girlfriend of four months, arrived back at her home in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, and found her son unconscious when she went to give him a goodnight kiss.

Hepburn pretended he had 'no idea' how Ashley had sustained extensive skull fractures and a broken leg and continued to watch TV.

Ashley was taken to hospital but died after suffering extensive fractures to his skull, causing a 'catastrophic' brain injury.

Today Hepburn was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 15 years behind bars by a judge at Stafford Crown Court.

He had denied the murder charge and was due to face trial in January 2013, but changed his plea to guilty.

Judge Simon Tonking told him: 'You were alone with Ashley for about an hour and during that time you brutally killed him in what was a sustained and forceful assault.

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