By Amanda Williams and Larisa Brown PUBLISHED: 11:20 EST, 18 December 2012 | UPDATED: 13:35 EST, 19 December 2012 Jailed: Factory worker Richard Morgan who shook his girlfriend's poorly baby son to death A 33-year-old man who beat and shook a poorly baby to death while the boy's mother went shopping was jailed for seven-and-a-half years today. Slater Sharkey suffered 25 bruises from his head to his toes when he died aged 13 months in December 2010, a jury at Newcastle Crown Court heard. Richard Morgan, of Tantobie, County Durham, harmed the baby over 18 hours prior to his death.
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Baby Slater Sharkey suffered 25 bruises from his head to his toes when he died aged 13 months
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Richard Morgan, 33, harmed the baby over 18 hours prior to his death
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Baby's mother Rachel Peacock handed 12-month community order
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Morgan sentenced to 7 and a half years today
Slater's mother, Rachel Peacock, who had been living with @placeholder for two months, was cleared by a jury of causing or allowing her son's death, but she was convicted of a cruelty charge.