A MAN who struck a two-month-old baby on the head with a remote control was warned he could be jailed yesterday.
Jayson Vann threw the remote control in a temper while calling at his ex-partner’s home in Rhyl, where there were two women visitors.
The remote control struck the infant on the head.
Vann then attacked Kirsty Wild, the woman cradling the baby, because she was having a relationship with his sister.
Vann was found guilty at Prestatyn Magistrates’ Court of common assault on the baby and Ms Wild.
He will be sentenced on August 13, the day after he is due to join the Army.
The court heard that a row broke out when Vann, 27, visited his ex-partner’s house on Rhyl’s Coast Road on January 14.
Vann went to collect his two children and was unhappy to find Rebecca Greener there with her two-month-old son called Oliver.
Oliver was being cradled by Ms Wild, who was having a relationship with Vann’s sister.
Ms Greener said Vann shouted at Ms Wild to leave but he punched her and then threw the remote control at her, hitting Oliver on the head.
Ms Greener said after she had taken Oliver away, Vann held down Ms Wild by her hair and punched her three times in the stomach, then once in the face, splitting her lip.
“It was like a horrible film, watching somebody being beaten up,” said Ms Greener.
The police and paramedics were called, and Oliver was taken to hospital with a lump on his head. He was not kept in and received no treatment.
Vann, who denied assaulting Oliver and Ms Wild, said he had never got on well with Ms Greener as he blamed her for encouraging his ex-partner to go clubbing when he wanted more of a family life.
He also said he felt his sister’s character had changed for the worse since becoming friendly with Ms Wild, causing anguish to their mother.
For that reason, he said, he was concerned about those two women being in the house with his children.
“I was looking after the welfare of my children and feared for their safety,” he said.
Vann, of Greenfield Street, Rhyl, denied throwing the remote control or punching Ms Wild, claiming that she had scratched him across the chest after refusing several times to leave the house.
Alex Fitzgerald, defending, said it was inconceivable that a baby hit by a remote control thrown from close range should have no sign of injury and that when paramedics arrived Ms Greener let them concentrate on Ms Wild’s injuries.
Chairman David Harrison, finding Vann guilty on both charges, said that although there were discrepancies in Ms Greener’s evidence they were only minor, and the magistrates accepted it in its entirety.
Adjourning the case until August 13 for a pre-sentence report, he warned: “Custody is not being ruled out.”
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