By Sam Webb Katarzyna Gacek, who has been jailed for 20 months for perverting the course of justice over the death of her son, seven week-old Thomas A young mother who was accused of killing her baby has escaped the blame for his violent death after she concocted a 'pack of lies' with her boyfriend and landlord to cover it up. Katarzyna Gacek, 24, of Oldham, Greater Manchester, was charged after seven week-old son Thomas died in hospital having been admitted with multiple injuries consistent with being squeezed beaten and shaken. But although she, her boyfriend Darren Butterfield, 35, and landlord Dawid Mokrzanowski, 26, all lied about the circumstances leading up to the youngster’s death, all escaped culpability for the tragedy after a legal technicality meant it was impossible to prove who caused the baby’s injuries.
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Katarzyna Gacek gave false statement over death of baby son Thomas
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Boyfriend Darren Butterfield and Dawid Mokrzanowski also lied
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It could not be proved who caused fatal injury, so none were convicted
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They were jailed for 20 months each for perverting the course of justice
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Mokrzanowski, 26, lived with Gacek and @placeholder and often acted as carer for her son, as did Butterfield, a frequent visitor to the address.
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Initially when Gacek took Thomas to hospital she told nurses she had been alone in the house with @placeholder all day and was carrying him up the stairs when she slipped on a rug and dropped him.
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When Gacek took Thomas to hospital she told nurses she had been alone in the house with @placeholder all day and was carrying him up the stairs when she slipped on a rug and dropped him
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Mokrzanowski later told police he had been in the house between 9am and 1pm but had been unaware he was supposed to be caring for @placeholder until he heard him crying.
Dawid Mokrzanowski
Dawid Mokrzanowski
Gacek then returned to find her son had a cut and bruise to his lip and confronted @placeholder who claimed he too fell asleep himself and the boy must have accidentally banged his mouth on the frame of his rocking cradle.