Craig Rowland: Murder accused ‘never hurt’ son – hears trial

During police interviews, the accused was also asked about the period before Lewis was first admitted to Craigavon Area hospital in October 2015.

Mr Rowland described how his son had what he and the child’s mother thought was a seizure, when he was six weeks old.

He told police that his son’s hands and legs were moving about and that his eyes began to roll back.

He told detectives that the same episode occurred again, before Lewis was admitted to hospital.

In the police interview, Mr Rowland was also asked about how his son slept at night and which parent was more likely to get up to feed him in the middle of the night.

The accused told officers that Lewis’s mother would have been up more frequently with the child than him.

“He’s never alone with me, he’s always with Laura, or me, him and Laura,” he said.

Mr Rowland later gave “no comment” answers to a number of questions asked by police about the seizure he believed his son was having.

He told police that he wasn’t going to repeat what he had previously said to officers and was “sick and tired” of going over it.