A text from the phone of parents accused of the murder of their baby son, saying “I want to bounce him off the walls” has been shown in court.
The message was sent from the shared phone of Stephen Boden, 29, and Shannon Marsden, 22, days before their 10-month-old son’s death, a court heard.
The pair are accused of killing Finley Boden in Old Whittington, near Chesterfield on Christmas Day 2020.
A jury heard Finley suffered a catalogue of “appalling” injuries.
The trial at Derby Crown Court has been told the pair jointly carried out the Christmas Day murder, after burning and beating him “in repeated acts of severe violence”, and – to this day – remained “in it together”.