Mother, 22, who let boyfriend, 33, shake her eight-week-old baby girl to death after he watched porn and smoked cannabis is jailed for nearly three years
- Premature Holly Roe suffered fatal blows to the head and had 11 rib fractures
- Father Michael Roe, 32, found to have shaken Holly on more than one occasion
- Tiffany Tate, 22, her mother, was guilty allowing the death by Roe’s hand
- Court previously heard he had watched porn and smoke cannabis before the kill
A mother has today been jailed for over two years after allowing her boyfriend to kill their baby girl after he watched porn and smoked cannabis.
Tiffany Tate, 22, was jailed for a total of 33 months after turning a blind eye to the violence Michael Roe, 32, unleashed on their innocent little girl Holly.
Roe, 32, shook his daughter to death after watching porn and smoking a joint in his sex-toy-filled shed.
Tiny Holly suffered fatal head injuries and 11 rib fractures in her short life, inflicted on her on more than one occasion at the family home in East Sussex in September 2018.
Paramedics found her not breathing and with no heart activity when they were finally called to treat her after the final act of aggression from her father.
Despite attempts to revive her, she was tragically pronounced dead a couple of hours later.
Tiffany with tiny baby Holly, who had been born weeks premature before she was murdered
Michael Roe, 32 , was found guilty murder with Tiffany Tate, 22, allowed her child’s death.
Her father Roe told ‘lie after lie’ and sought to pin the blame for the death on the baby’s mother, a court heard.
But a trial found that Holly, who had been born two months prematurely, died at her father’s hands.
She had suffered ‘forceful shaking, traumatic impact, or both’, a court heard on Friday.
A judge also criticised her mother for allowing the death of her baby.
Michael Roe was found guilty of her murder on Wednesday, while her mother Tiffany Tate was found guilty of allowing her death.
They appeared at Hove Crown Court on Friday for sentencing.
Baby Holly Roe, pictured, was born months premature in July 2018. She died eight weeks later
Tiffany Tate, pictured left, and Michael Roe, pictured right, were both sentenced this afternoon
Roe, 33, of Crowborough, was jailed for life with a minimum of 19 years.
The 555 days he has spent on remand will count towards the minimum term.
Tate, 22, was jailed for two years and nine months.
Sentencing Roe, Mr Justice Edward Murray said: ‘When you get frustrated you would lose your temper and lash out, unfortunately for baby Holly one lashing out proved fatal.
‘Clearly you had a position of trust in relation to Holly – the highest possible as her father – which you abused.’
He told the court how Roe and Tate each ‘blamed the other’ in the aftermath of the death of their child.
‘Your efforts Michael Roe to pin the blame on Tiffany Tate began even before Holly’s death.’
Mr Justice Murray said he took into account Tate’s lack of maturity and status as a looked-after person.
Lewis Power QC, defending Roe, cited Roe’s traumatic childhood, including incidents of physical abuse.
‘This clearly in this case appears to have repeated itself,’ he told the court.
He also made reference to Roe’s previous good character.
Danny Robinson, defending Tate, argued that there was ‘no evidence’ that she directly witnessed or learned of any shaking of Holly.
He added that she had co-operated with the investigations throughout.
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