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Jury convicts boyfriend of murdering 12-week-old baby who was found with a fractured skull

Tyla Wharmby, 24, who gave a false account to police about how he found three-month-old Hunter Hodges unwell, was convicted of murder at Canterbury Crown Court today.
Tyla Wharmby, 24, who gave a false account to police about how he found three-month-old Hunter Hodges unwell, was convicted of murder at Canterbury Crown Court today.
Hunter Hodges, the infant whose injuries also included wounds consistent with violent shaking on an earlier, separate occasion, in a family photograph.
Hunter Hodges, the infant whose injuries also included wounds consistent with violent shaking on an earlier, separate occasion, in a family photograph.

Tyla Wharmby told police he had simply woken to find the infant unwell and alerted the boy's mother, who dialled 999, but a majority jury at Canterbury Crown Court rejected that account. Kent Police detectives, sifting highly complex medical, forensic and digital evidence, showed the 24-year-old had deliberately inflicted the fatal injury shortly before the emergency call on 15 July 2022.

Arrested the day Hunter Hodges died, Tyla Wharmby was charged on 22 February 2026 and denied both counts

Detective Inspector Adam Marshall, the senior investigating officer, said his team 'exposed the truth behind Wharmby's lies'

'No outcome could lessen the devastating loss,' said detective Adam Marshall, hoping the verdict offers 'some measure of accountability'

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