THE mother of 14-week-old Cárágh Walsh has asked a coroner to rule that her daughter died a non-accidental death.
On the last day of the inquest yesterday, Tammie Louise Walsh asked coroner Joe McCrisken through her lawyer Michael Brady to make the finding when he records a cause of death for the infant on Monday,
Carágh, from Glasvey Park home in Twinbrook, west Belfast, died on February 7, 2014 at the Royal Belfast Children for Sick Children two days after being brought in "lifeless" and barely breathing.
Her father Christopher O'Neill, who was acquitted of her murder last year and declined to give evidence at her inquest, has asked via his lawyer Ronan Lavery QC that the coroner not to make a decision on whether or not Cárágh Walsh's death was non-accidental or accidental.
Mr O'Neill told doctors he shook Cárágh at their home in an effort to revive her.
The inquest heard that in evidence to police, her father told officers that his shaking of Cárágh on a scale of one to 10 was a `five'.
The inquest heard that the post mortem findings were that the baby died from head injury she suffered while being shaken.
