EVIL Couple Who Murdered SWEET Grandson, Who Endured Pain & Misery, Jailed For LIFE

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EVIL Grandparents Found Guilty of Murdering SWEET Toddler Grandson

SWEET Ethan Endured Pain And Misery Before Being Murdered by His EVIL Grandparents

Ethan was severely underweight and dehydrated, and had suffered 40 visible injuries to his body

North Wales News 16 JUL 2025





The grandparents of two year old Ethan Ives Griffiths have been found unanimously guilty of his murder.







Michael Ives and Kerry Ives were also found guilty of cruelty to a child under 16. Ethans mother Shannon Ives was convicted of causing or allowing the death of a child, and cruelty to a child under 16.













Ethan, who was severely underweight and dehydrated, suffered 40 visible injuries to his body after he moved in with his grandparents in Kingsley Road, Garden City, Deeside, in June 2021


He collapsed on August 13 and again on August 14 that year. A Mold Crown Court jury heard Ethan had been shaken by Michael soon before he collapsed.

A Home Office pathologist Dr Brian Rodgers found he had sustained a catastrophic head injury.

The jury of seven women and five men reached their verdict after hearing evidence during a trial lasting more than six weeks. Jurors heard Ethan was moved into his grandparents home in Kingsley Road in June 2021.

The prosecution said his time there was thoroughly miserable and he was targeted by the defendants Michael and Kerry as an object of abuse and neglect. He was quiet and withdrawn, small and painfully thin

He was exposed to brutality and according to a medical expert would have experienced distress, pain and misery in the days and weeks prior to his death.

The court heard on August 13 Michael heard a bang in the living room. He turned and saw Ethan on the floor gazing. He was unresponsive for four or five minutes. Michael said it could have been a smack in the head


Mother Shannon Ives was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of her son Ethan Ives Griffiths





She blamed her parents four days after he died on August 16. She said she never hit her child and that they were the only ones in the living room on August 14.

She also insisted her parents had been horrible and that her dad Michael tortured Ethan. She told the jury she had wanted to take Ethan to see a doctor due to his weight, but added Michael and Kerry would always threaten me, saying if anyone saw the way he was Id get him taken away from me


Grandparents Found Guilty of Murdering Toddler Grandson




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EVIL Couple Who Murdered Toddler Grandson Jailed For LIFE

Couple who beat their two year old grandson to death jailed for life

BBC 5 OCT 2025




Ethan Ives Griffiths two, was subjected to distress, pain and misery before his death at the hands of his grandparents, the toddler collapsed at their home in Flintshire, North Wales





Grandparents who murdered their grandson had a campaign to break him and did not like it when he stood up for himself, a judge has said as he jailed them for life.




Shannon Ives wanted Ethan to be broken too



Ethan Ives Griffiths died on 16 August 2021 after suffering a catastrophic head injury at his grandparents home in Garden City, Flintshire.

Sentencing Ethans grandfather, Michael Ives, 48, and grandmother, Kerry Ives, 46, at Mold Crown Court, Mr Justice Griffiths handed them minimum terms of 23 years and 17 years respectively. Ethans mother, Shannon Ives 28, was jailed 12 years for allowing Ethans death.

Ethan was being beaten, he was being starved, and he was being deprived of fluids, the judge told the court.

The toddler was a shadow of the chubby healthy child he had been in the days before he fatally collapsed, Mr Justice Griffiths said.

The violence was getting worse, more frequent and harsh, he said.

Describing the fatal attack, the judge said Michael did it. Kerry was sat next to him on the sofa. She was the partner in this crime. Although it was Michael who struck the blow, she smiled.

It was an act that would horrify any independent bystander.




The boys father, Will Griffiths, said he still felt dazed by his sons loss.





He was brave and resilient with a strong character, Mr Justice Griffiths said, adding that the people hitting him didnt like the little boy standing up for himself