Jurors watch CCTV of paramedics with dying baby

Paramedics treated Archie Woodbridge after being called to a house in Bromley Gardens, Houghton Regis

Murder trial jurors watched CCTV footage of paramedics treating a six-month-old baby hours before he died.

Footage showed several paramedics attending to Archie Woodbridge at a house in Bromley Gardens, Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, on 9 February 2024.

Prosecutors told a trial at Luton Crown Court that Kieran Humphreys shook and killed Archie - a week after starting a relationship with the little boy's mother, Saskia Woodbridge, 19.

Mr Humphreys, of Bromley Gardens, denies unlawfully killing Archie and has pleaded not guilty to murder, manslaughter and child cruelty. The trial continues.

A prosecution barrister said Archie was injured at a house in Dolphin Drive

Charlotte Newell KC, who is leading the prosecution team, told jurors how Mr Humphreys was alone with Archie at the home of friends in Dolphin Drive, Houghton Regis, on 9 February.

She said Miss Woodbridge, who lived near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, had left Archie with Mr Humphreys while she visited a nail salon in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.

Miss Newell said evidence showed that Archie was injured at the house in Dolphin Drive - then moved.

She said Mr Humphreys, his friend Karen Smith, 40, and Miss Woodbridge took him to the home of a relative, who also lived in Bromley Gardens.

Jurors were told how a 999 call was made, directing paramedics to the relative's house.

Miss Newell said the house had a CCTV camera which had captured the minutes before Archie was taken to hospital.

Prosecutors said Archie Woodbridge was moved to a house in Bromley Gardens after being shaken

Jurors saw Mr Humphreys, Ms Smith, Miss Woodbridge, and Mr Humphreys' mother, Sharon Humphreys, 59, and also from Bromley Gardens, with Archie.

Footage showed Miss Woodbridge on the phone to a 999 operator and Mr Humphreys, Mrs Humphreys and Ms Smith trying to help Archie.

Miss Woodbridge told the operator that Archie was "blue", not moving and not breathing

Paramedics were then seen arriving, spending several minutes attending to Archie, then carrying him out of the house.

Mr Humphreys could be seen comforting Ms Woodbridge at times.

Jurors were told Kieran Humphreys had been awake playing Call of Duty on Xbox the night before Archie Woodbridge died.

Miss Newell has told jurors that Archie suffered a fatal brain injury while in Mr Humphreys' "sole" care and was declared dead late on 9 February.

Evidence showed that Archie had been "gripped and shaken", she said.

She said Mr Humphreys had been "awake throughout the night" playing Call of Duty on Xbox, and had bought a McDonald's breakfast in the morning.

Miss Newell said Mr Humphreys' priority after Archie died had been to "save his own skin".

She said he had lied about the circumstances in which Archie became unwell and had admitted perverting the course of justice.