Man shot 18 month toddler in head with airgun…

A MAN who shot a baby in the head with an air rifle leaving him permanently brain damaged was today jailed for two years….

Jordan Walters, 25, fired the gun at Harry Studley at the flat he shared with girlfriend Emma Horseman, 24.

Harry and his brother Riley, then two, were visiting with their mother, Miss Allen, who had gone over to discuss a lending club.

Horseman (mother) was previously cleared of aiding and abetting him following a trial which heard she told him: “Shoot Harry just to frighten him, shut him up, shoot it at Harry.”

He admitted accidentally discharging it, but the boy’s mother said he “aimed the gun” at him and fired it, leaving blood “gushing” down his head.

The bullet hit the right side of the head in the temporal region between his forehead and his ear, the court heard.

The .22 pellet fractured the 18-month-old’s skull and lodged in his brain, leaving him fighting for his life.

The tot was rushed to Bristol Children’s Hospital by air ambulance where his family were told to say their goodbyes.