A WOMAN has denied applying “pressure” on her daughter to “come up with an explanation” for the death of her baby grandson.
Angela Bryce was quizzed over claims Katie Strawhorn told her she was punched in the stomach by boyfriend Jack Butterworth while heavily pregnant.
Jurors heard how Katie initially stated to detectives Butterworth had never assaulted – but later alleged the 18 year-old had attacked her.
Butterworth is said to have assaulted Katie at a number of addresses in Kilmarnock last November 3.
Her 46 year-old mum yesterday said she did not push her daughter to go the police and instead “left it to her own conscience.”
The evidence emerged at Butterworth’s trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
He is charged with the culpable homicide of his baby son Lucas in November 2016.
Prosecutors claim he assaulted Katie, 20, and that she suffered a “placental abruption” resulting in the boy being born by emergency caesarean section.
The child was said to have beenso severely injured that he died five days later in hospital.
Butterworth faces a separate charge of assaulting Katie between January and November 2016.
He denies the charges and the trial, before Judge Lord Ericht, continues..
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