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Devon father jailed for baby throwing death

A man who killed his crying baby by throwing him into his cot has been jailed at Exeter Crown Court yesterday.

Matthew Wickens, 24, was jailed for six years and five months after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of his son, Riley Gardener.

Matthew Wickens, from Newton Abbot, admitted that he had shook Riley and slammed him down in his cot when he could not get the crying...