11/03/2015

21-Year-Old Charged With Murder Of Baby Boy

A 21-year-old man has been charged with the murder of an 11-week-old boy in Oxfordshire.

Jordan Saxton is accused of fatally injuring the boy at a property in Faringdon.

The baby boy was found with head injuries in the early hours of 17 November last year. The child died a short time later in hospital.

A post-mortem revealed the child died from head injuries.

Saxton, of Wingate Close, Oxford, is due to appear in court later today.

(MH/CD)

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