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Mum who denies shaking baby to death says he went blue as she went out for joint

Chelsea Cuthbertson, 28, told a court how she went out to smoke cannabis and returned to find her son Malakai Watts’s face turning blue.

She denies deliberately killing the boy, despite experts claiming the damage to his head and his eight fractured ribs were most likely caused by a ‘non-accidental injury’.

Malakai was found ‘grey from head to toe’ when police arrived at the family’s two-bed flat on February 2, after Cuthbertson dialed 911. Read the full story here ▶