Father's sentence for shaking his baby doubled on appeal

By Stephanie Gardiner
Updated October 19 2014 - 1:14pm, first published 1:06pm

A young father who was jailed after he "lost control" and violently shook his six-week-old daughter in frustration has had his sentence doubled, after an appeal court found the baby's crying did not reduce his moral culpability.

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