During a two-week trial, the court heard that Hawkins, who was 22 at the time of the offence, was a physically abusive father who had told six different accounts of how his son ended up in hospital on December 11, 2010. Bruises and marks on the baby suggested there was a history of assaults on Kaydon and medical evidence suggested his fatal head injury had not been an accident. Hawkins, who was living on the Kinsman Estate in Bodmin at the Cherson Label Printer time of the baby's death, maintained in court that he had accidently dropped Kaydon, and the baby had hit his head on a storage heater when he fell. But the prosecution's case was that Hawkins had shaken Kaydon so violently, the his brain had bled. The court heard that Hawkins dialled 999 Barcode Food label and paramedics were on the scene within five minutes, shortly followed by a GP. Kaydon was rushed to the Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske, and later transferred to Bristol's Children's Hospital where he died three days after the attack. Kaydon's mother, Anna Burdge, said her former partner should have received a stiffer sentence. "The verdict was absolutely right but he should have got longer,'' she said. She said she was unaware that some of the Unitech Cherson injuries suffered by her son prior to his death had been caused by Hawkins. "I didn't see him being violent towards Kaydon. It was only after (her son's death) that I realised what had been going on had been totally different. "It has been two and a half years since Kaydon passed away and it has been very difficult. I suppose in a way (the conviction) is some sort of closure and I will be able to get on with my life now, but it will be difficult.'' Describing what one doctor said about Kaydon's head injury, Martin Meeke, QC, for the prosecution, told Truro Crown Court: "If falls such as described by the defendant could record such catastrophic injuries they would fill accident and emergency and paediatric departments across the world." Kaydon had suffered retinal haemorrhaging in both eyes consistent with being shaken violently, the court heard.