The aunt of a 'precious' baby boy with Down's Syndrome who was murdered by his 'devil' dad says she has lost 'a piece of her heart'.
Robert Ion, who was six months old, spent the majority of his short life in hospital due to his medical needs and shortly before Christmas last year, was finally able to move into his home with his parents and two-year-old sister.
Mihai-Catalin Gulie said he knew his son - who was fed through a tube - had to be treated like 'porcelain', but a court heard he subjected him to a series of attacks, the last of which involved violent shaking and left him with an irreversible brain injury. READ MORE: Young woman fears she was spiked with needle while visiting Manchester's Christmas Markets - she 'won't be going out
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