A fitness instructor has been found guilty of murdering his 18-month-old adopted daughter by violently shaking her and striking her head.

Matthew Scully-Hicks, 31, inflicted a catalogue of injuries including bruises, a broken leg and a fall down a full flight of stairs – on Elsie in the eight months he had care of her.

She died four days after being violently shaken and sustaining a fractured skull just two weeks after being formally adopted by the defendant and his husband.

Paul Lewis QC, for the prosecution, told the jury at Cardiff crown court that Scully-Hicks lost his temper with Elsie and caused her “catastrophic injuries”.

Lewis said: “He shook her and he struck her head against some hard surface, or he used a hard object to hit her to the back of the head. She was just 18 months old. She was defenceless and vulnerable.”

Source - https://www.veeinsider.com/blog/fitness-instructor-matthew-scully-hicks-guilty-murdering-adopted-daughter/

Neighbours reported they heard the former lifeguard and fitness instructor shouting "shut the f**k up" at Elsie and calling her a "little f***ing brat" and a "silly little c**t" when she cried.



The 31-year-old fitness instructor insisted he never harmed his daughter and claimed he found her unresponsive at their home in Llandaff, Cardiff, on 25 May last year.

But following the trial lasting more than four weeks, during which 12 medical experts and six doctors gave evidence, jurors unanimously found him guilty of murder.

Source - https://www.veeinsider.com/blog/fitness-instructor-matthew-scully-hicks-guilty-murdering-adopted-daughter/

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Y u go even shake 18 month old