A stepfather threatened an emergency doctor when she took notes in hospital after he fatally attacked his two-year-old stepdaughter, a court heard today.

Kyle Bevan, 31, allegedly threatened Dr Nicola Drake after she took notes on their conversation at Withybush Hospital, Wales, where his two-year-old stepdaughter Lola was receiving emergency care after he attacked her.

Mr Bevan is accused of murdering the toddler after he moved in with her mother Sinead James, 30, in 2020.

Dr Drake said he threatened to rip her notes out of 'her hands' if she took 'one step' outside the family room, Swansea Crown Court heard.

She had asked Mr Bevan to give an account of what had happened to Lola on the morning of July 17, 2020.

Giving evidence, Dr Drake said she saw Lola was being managed properly so went to the family room to speak to Bevan and James.

Prosecutor Caroline Rees KC asked: 'Did Kyle Bevan ask any questions?'

Dr Drake said: 'He asked one question about who was paying for them to get to Cardiff.'

Swansea Crown Court heard the doctor asked Bevan to give an account of what had happened to Lola on the morning of July 17, 2020.

But when she started to take notes, Mr Bevan said: 'If you take one step out of this room with those notes, I'll rip them out of your hands'.

Dr Drake added: 'I advised him that it would be shared with external agencies such as social services and that I had a statutory duty, a legal duty, given how serious the injuries were.

Dr Nicola Drake was on-call at home on the morning of the alleged attack when she received a 'trauma call' about Lola James.

The court heard Dr Drake, an emergency medicine consultant, rushed to the hospital to find multiple teams working on Lola.

Lola was being treated at Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest but was due to be transferred to Noah's Ark Children's Hospital in Cardiff.

Swansea Crown Court heard heard Bevan had been left alone with Lola at the family home when he launched a 'frenzied and extremely violent attack.'

But he failed to call an ambulance immediately and instead filmed a 'disturbing 22 second film' of seriously injured Lola as he tried to prop her up.

Mr Bevan also carried out a series of internet searches asking: 'My two year old child has just taken a bang to the head and gone all limp and snoring. What's wrong.'

The court heard Lola was found to have 101 surface injuries to her body along with a catastrophic brain injury and died four days later.

Mr Bevan was arrested by police and he claimed the family dog had pushed Lola down the stairs at the home in Haverfordwest, Wales.

Her motherSinead James, 30, told police she was asleep when Lola suffered a series of horrific injuries and claimed to have no reason to think Mr Bevan would harm her.

Mrs Rees said Mrs James knew her boyfriend had a 'nasty and violent temper' but chose to 'prioritise her relationship with him over her own daughter's physical safety.'

Expert witness Ian Simmons, a consultant paediatric ophthalmologist, said: 'It is highly unlikely the injuries would have been caused by a fall down 10 carpeted stairs.

'The most likely cause of her injuries is a form of abusive head trauma, possibly with some form of impact'

Earlier the court heard two-year-old girl screamed she 'didn't want to go home' just days before she was killed by her stepfather

Mrs James, of Neyland, Wales, denies causing or allowing the death of a child. Mr Bevan, of Aberystwyth, Wales, denies murder.

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