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Townsville soldier cleared of killing baby son
Tuesday April 06, 2021
A former Australian soldier accused of killing his six-week-old baby son has been exonerated after being found not guilty on retrial.
Photo: ABC
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 Mr 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 Medical Practice in Townsville on November 3, 2011, to…
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