A couple have been found guilty of the murder of their two-year-old grandson.Ethan Ives-Griffiths was dangerously dehydrated and severely underweight, with 40 visible bruises or marks, when he collapsed with a catastrophic head injury at his grandparents' home in Flintshire, North Wales, on the evening of August 14 2021.A jury at Mold Crown Court convicted his grandfather Michael Ives, 47, and grandmother Kerry Ives, 46, of his murder and of cruelty to a child under 16.Ethan's mother Shannon Ive

A couple have been found guilty of the murder of their two-year-old grandson.Ethan Ives-Griffiths was dangerously dehydrated and severely underweight, with 40 visible bruises or marks, when he collapsed with a catastrophic head injury at his grandparents' home in Flintshire, North Wales, on the evening of August 14 2021.A jury at Mold Crown Court convicted his grandfather Michael Ives, 47, and grandmother Kerry Ives, 46, of his murder and of cruelty to a child under 16.Ethan's mother Shannon Ives, 28, who had been staying with her son at her parents' home in Garden City when the court heard he was "targeted for abuse and subjected to casual cruelty", was found guilty of causing or allowing his death and of child cruelty.Jurors were visibly upset at points during the five-and-a-half week trial, during which CCTV from the family home was played which showed Michael Ives carrying his grandson by the top of his arm and appearing to punch him after putting him into a car seat.