Taunton’s Musgrove Park Hospital is the NHS trust-run hospital in Somerset. It has a history dating to WWII, became an NHS hospital in 1951, and is now in the news after a father was jailed for murdering his four-week-old son.
A man has been jailed for life with a minimum of 18 years after violently shaking his newborn, Atticus, in Chard, Somerset. The attack left Atticus with brain damage and spinal injuries; he died seven days later in hospital. The judge described the act as a sudden outburst of anger fueled by intoxication.