Andrew Lloyd was jailed for murdering Aaron Gilbert in 2006 (Image: Rex/South Wales Police)
A person serving a 24-year sentence for murdering his girlfriend’s child has been discovered useless in jail.
Andrew Lloyd subjected one-year-old Aaron Gilbert to 4 weeks of brutality earlier than shaking the child in a rage, hitting his head towards a wall.
The child grew to become so disfigured from the systematic assaults {that a} neighbour likened his look to the Elephant Man.
A jury heard how Lloyd picked Aaron up by his ears and swung him by his ankles ‘like somebody swinging a cat by its tail’.
He additionally put a blanket over him as if to smother him and blew hashish smoke in his face. There was additionally proof that 5 days earlier than Aaron died, Lloyd bit him onerous on the cheek.
Lloyd was jailed in 2006, together with Aaron’s mom Rebecca Lewis, who in a authorized landmark, was jailed for seven years for familial murder.
A jury discovered the mom responsible of failing to guard her son from Lloyd at their dwelling in Swansea.
Lewis left Aaron with Lloyd whereas she went procuring, regardless of understanding in regards to the weeks of abuse.
Rebecca Lewis was jailed for seven years after being discovered responsible of failing to guard her son from Andrew Lloyd (Image: Dimitris Legakis/Rex)
Aaron died in hospital the next day. Whereas inspecting his physique a pathologist discovered a extreme mind harm and nearly 50 exterior accidents.
Almost 15 years since Lloyd’s sentencing, the Jail Service confirmed he died in jail aged 37.
A spokeswoman stated: ‘HMP Full Sutton prisoner Andrew Lloyd died in custody on November 19. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has been knowledgeable.’
Lloyd was 23 when he was sentenced in December 2006 at Swansea Crown Court docket, together with Lewis, then 21.
Child Aaron Gilbert was subjected to weeks of sickening abuse (Image: Rex)
Andrew Lloyd has died in jail aged 37 (Image: South Wales Police)
He was given a minimal of 24 years in jail, that means he would have been 47 if he served his full time period.
Throughout sentencing, Mr Justice Langstaff advised Lloyd: ‘You murdered Aaron after subjecting him to a sustained catalogue of brutality over the past 4 weeks of his life.
‘I regard your conduct throughout these 4 weeks as being successfully inseparable from what you probably did on the day if you inflicted the deadly harm.’
In 2007, Lloyd’s case reached London’s Enchantment Court docket as he challenged his 24-year time period.
His legal professionals argued the sentence took inadequate account of his youth and turbulent private background.
However Lord Justice Gage stated medical doctors had famous 50 separate accidents on Aaron’s physique after his loss of life in Might 2005. The accidents lined his small physique ‘from head to foot’.
He stated Lloyd had inflicted ‘important and excessive abuse’ and, however for his youth and background of turmoil, a 30-year time period might need been imposed.
‘This was a dreadful case,’ he concluded on the time, rejecting Lloyd’s attraction.
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