THE grandfather of a Cwmbran baby who died when she was 41-days old told the court 'a fiction', a prosecutor claimed today.

Paul Lewis QC told the jury at Newport Crown Court that Mark Jones' claims that he had fallen while carrying baby Amelia Rose Jones was not true.

Mark Jones, aged 45, of no fixed abode but previously of Cwmbran, denies the murder charge.

Summing up the prosecution case Mr Lewis QC reminded the jury that Amelia Rose Jones died in November 2012, only 41 days after being born, and at the time of her death had fractured legs, ribs and skull.

Mr Lewis said: “The defendant accepts that he was responsible for causing her skull fracture and the brain injuries that she suffered that Saturday evening- his case now is that he did so accidentally.”

Mr Lewis outlined that the defendant says that while babysitting on November 16, he accidentally fell, tripping over a toy, while holding Amelia and she struck her head.

“We believe that fall is fiction,” Mr Lewis said.

“The fatal injuries must have been caused when she was 39 days old on November 17, 2012 when she was in the sole care of grandfather Mark Jones.

“Medical evidence says Amelia could not have been normal or well during Saturday with her mother had she suffered those catastrophic brain injuries on November 16.”

He reminded the jury on Saturday, November 17 her mother, Sarah Jones, went to the cinema with friends.

But she had only just taken her seat when Jones called her, and she told him to call 999.

During the 999 call Jones said he had gone to make a cup of coffee but came back to find the baby not breathing.

“Jones changed his story multiple times”, Mr Lewis said.

When Jones realised doctors had found fractures he claimed to have stepped on a toy penguin and slipped over, dropping Amelia, on the Friday night, and then on the Saturday night he dropped her after he blacked out, Mr Lewis explained.

But, Mr Lewis reminded that he told Dr Stephanie Coakley, who examined him hours after his original arrest in November 2012, that Amelia slipped from his hands and hit her head on the floor whilst he shook her feeding bottle.

Mr Lewis said that Jones pretended to his daughter that he had cancer and a brain tumour, even disguising his voice so he could call her from a withheld number claiming to be a doctor.

Mr Lewis explained that the medical evidence suggests that the fractures to Amelia’s legs were likely to have been caused by pulling and twisting, her fractured skull was probably caused by her head hitting a blunt object and fractured ribs were probably due to compression such as squeezing. While bleeding to Amelia’s eyes and the surface of her brain was likely to have been caused by shaking.

Mr Lewis finished his summing up by adding: “He has lied about everything to try and pull the wool over your eyes- do not let him.”

Proceeding.