He claimed that Michael Ivz, 47, told his daughter Shannon that her son Ethan Evis, who “needs to be disciplined” before his tragic death on August 16, 2021 in Dised, Wales.
One of the grandson tortured his grandson to death after forcing him on a two -year -old Tut to put his hands on his head for hours because he needed to “be disciplined”.
Little Ethan Evis Griffiths has collapsed at his grandparents ’house in Garden City and Wales just two days before his death on August 16, 2021.
Both his grandparents, Michael Yves, 47, Kerry Eve, 46, accused of killing him, causing the death of a child, and the charge of the cruelty he denies.
The mother of Tut, Shannon Eve, 28, denies or allows the child to die, and cruelty.
After his death, the police interrogated Shannon about whether she believed that the alleged treatment of her son is the killing – which she agreed to. She said that her father told her that Ethan “needs discipline”, which she shouted: “He is two!”
He also claims that he sent a message to another daughter a month before the child's death, saying: “Ethan needs to learn the difficult way.”
After the collapse in his grandparents ’house the following month, Ethan was transferred to Countess Chester Hospital and then moved to Alder Hay Hospital for Children in Mersiside, where he died on August 16, 2021.
On the fourteenth day of the trial of the trial of the interviews conducted on the police to the jury from seven women and five men in the crown court. In one of the investigators, the investigators asked Shannon if he made Ethan put his hands on his head to torture.
Shannon replied: “Yes, it's.” The police asked why they were not reported. She said, “Because I am afraid of my father.”
Shannon said that her father, Michael, would make Ethan stand with his legs open and hands on his head “for an hour or two.” But she agreed that she did not see that same process for two hours.
She said if Ethan puts his hands on her father, he would tell him to put his hands again on his head. “My father said,” He only needs to learn … he needs discipline. “I said,” It is two! “
Shannon said after Ethan went alone to stay with his grandparents in June 2021, he lost his weight. I moved from being “chunky to thin” within three to four weeks, as she claimed.
She said that the clothes were “huge” and had to buy clothes for young children between the ages of 18 to 24 months because the clothes “two to three years were very large.”
Shannon said that she asked her parents: “How did he lose a lot of weight?” They claimed that they said that he had “three or four meals a day.”
Shannon also told the police that she had not told a social worker about her fears about Ethan because she was “afraid” of her father Michael “mind”. She said she believed that “my father mainly” was responsible for Ethan's injuries.
And Shannon, who claims global credit and the benefit of the child, suggested that her parents used her to achieve financial gains. “They act as they care but they do not do it. They only want me for my money – to use me. They are not a family. They are not behaving like a family.”
The jury heard that Michael claimed that when Shannon joined Ethan at his home where the ethan behavior worsened. He said that Ethan was “taste” his food in his mouth and “strangling”.
He also said he was not harsh with Ethan. He said that Ethan stands and laughs at Shannon, who “will make her blood boil.” Michael said, “You need to give up care,” little bags, “said Michael.
This afternoon, the jury heard Michael Evs police interviews. He said he felt “disgusted by himself” that he carried ethan in his car with one arm in August 2021 because it was “terrible”.
He said he felt “sick” because he did it again and he was carrying him from trampoline in the same month. He admitted that he was present when Ethan collapsed at home in Garden City on August 13 and August 14.
But when one of the investigators asked him, “How is this young boy killed in your home?” “I don't know …. 100 % in my life I never touched.”
The trial continues.
