Townsville ex-soldier cleared by judge after being found guilty of killing baby son

A former Australian soldier accused of killing his six-week-old baby son has been exonerated after being found not guilty on retrial.

Nicholas Aaron Baxter was found guilty of manslaughter over the death of son Matthew in a Supreme Court trial at Townsville in 2017.

The conviction was quashed on appeal and Baxter found not guilty on Tuesday in a judge-only trial.

Tiny six-week-old Matthew Baxter suffered rib fractures and brain haemorrhaging before he died in 2011.

Baxter called Bluewater…