Zac Bennett-Eko begged to be sectioned just days before he threw his baby son into a river. Three days after his last trip to A&E, Zac Bennett-Eko took his 11-month-old son Zakari out for a walk in his pushchair in Radcliffe. Eyewitnesses saw him pick his son out of the pram and then swing the boy backwards and forwards before throwing him over a fence and into the river.

Bennett-Eko went to the nearby Lock Keeper pub and sat at a table Immediately after the offence, his behaviour there was sufficiently unusual that people realised the incident must have something to do with him. He told a member of the public what he had done, while emergency services scrambled to the scene to save his baby’s life.

He explained it to the police once they arrived and spoke to him. He was immediately arrested. He was later assessed at the police st ...