Months after father was cleared of her murder, coroner rules 14-week-old baby died of brain injury from 'violent shaking'
A coroner has ruled that a 14-week-old infant girl died after she suffered a massive brain injury caused by "violent shaking". Cárágh Walsh, the infant from Glasveigh Park, Poleglass, Belfast, was also found to have suffered from leg fractures while she was being brutally shaken and it was also discovered that she had a dislocated right elbow. The infant died at the Royal Victoria Hospital only two days after paramedics were called to her family home on Glasveigh Drive in February 2014. Christopher O'Neill, her father, had initially been charged with the murder of his daughter but a jury in 2017 cleared his name in a trial.
After an inquest was done into the infant's death, Joe McCrisken, the coroner, ruled that the child's cause of death had been hypoxic ischaemic necrosis due to cardio-respiratory arrest, cerebral edema and spinal hemorrhage due to violent shaking.
Tammie-Louise Walsh, the child's mother, as well as multiple other family members, were seen in the public gallery weeping as the coroner was reading out the findings, the Daily Mail reported.
