Chilling bodycam footage shows the moment a dad admitted throwing his baby son in a river. Zak Bennett-Eko was arrested at the scene after his 11-month-old son Zakari was flung over a fence into the River Irwell in Bury.
The little boy tragically died despite heroic efforts to save him, the Manchester Evening News reports. Jurors in Manchester heard the 22-year-old dad - who had a long history of mental illness - believed the infant was "the devil".
The video, which was shown to jurors in the trial, shows Bennett-Eko just after 4pm on September 11, 2019. Minutes earlier, the killer - who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia - was seen "swinging his son from side to side" before throwing the child over a five-foot-high fence and
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