Remember David Hardy The man who punched a 5-day old baby a Tesco supermarket in UK? He admitted striking Elsie Temple in the supermarket's biscuit aisle in Baguley, Manchester but then claimed he thought the little girl was Libby's doll.
Hardy, a father of one, hit Elsie when she was being pushed in a carry cot by her mother Amy Duckers, 27, who had taken her out for the first time since her birth. The baby immediately cried out in pain - and was left with an injury the size of an egg on her head as her older sister Libby, seven, screamed hysterically to her mother: 'Is she going to die?'
In an extraordinary plea to be cleared of assault Hardy, of Greater Manchester, said :
'It looked like a doll to me. It is ridiculous but it is what happened'. But district judge Sam Goozee rejected his defence as 'implausible' and fined him £900, ordered him to pay £100 compensation to his victim and £500 costs.
The baby's family are however not happy wit the judgement as they yelled 'f*****g joke' as he was sentenced and confronted Hardy outside court yelling:
'That sentence is disgusting. You punched a baby in the face. How do you sleep at night?'. Elsie's grandfather John Duckers said that a fine instead of a jail term was 'unbelievable for punching five day old baby'.
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