A Canterbury Crown Court jury found Tyla Wharmby guilty of murdering his girlfriend's infant son.

A majority guilty verdict on murder and on causing grievous bodily harm with intent is the jury's finding on those two counts. It is not the sentence. Kent Online reported Mrs Justice Foster will sentence Tyla Wharmby later, and the infant's age is not the same number in every account: Kent Police and the BBC said 13 weeks, and the Daily Mail said 12 weeks.

The BBC reported Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, in a story timestamped 15:57 GMT by Oliver Whitfield-Miocic, Joshua Askew, and Sara Smith, that a jury at Canterbury Crown Court found Tyla Wharmby guilty of murder and of grievous bodily harm with intent. The BBC said he is 24, of Prestedge Avenue in Ramsgate, that he had pleaded not guilty to both counts, and that he is not the infant's biological father. The Daily Mail, in a story by Francine Wolfisz published at 17:01 EDT and updated at 17:22 EDT the same day, reported a majority jury verdict on the same two counts and said sentencing will come at a later date. Kent Online, in a story by Julia Roberts published at 16:10 and updated at 16:54 on Oct. 29, reported majority verdicts of 11 to one and 10 to two after deliberations of 15 hours and 19 minutes, and said trial judge Mrs Justice Foster will sentence him later. Kent Online did not assign which count drew which split. A verdict is the jury's finding. It is not the term the judge has not yet imposed.

Kent Police said in a release published at 15:26 on Feb. 23, 2026, that on July 15, 2022, emergency services were called to an injured 13-week-old boy at an address in Queen Street, Ramsgate, and that the infant died in hospital later that day. The release said Wharmby, of Prestedge Avenue, was charged that Monday with murder and with causing grievous bodily harm with intent, and that he was remanded to Medway Magistrates' Court on Feb. 24. The BBC also said 13 weeks. The Daily Mail said the infant was 12 weeks old and three months old, and that paramedics were called just after 5:30 a.m. Kent Online said three months old, and one caption on that story said 12 weeks. Thirteen weeks and 12 weeks are not the same age. The Daily Mail and Kent Online put the death on July 15, 2022. The child's mother is not named here. The BBC reported she told a 999 handler, "My two-month-old son woke up this morning with a swollen head," and that the head was "really, really squishy." Two months, in that call, is her wording. It is not the 12-week or 13-week figure.

The BBC reported the court heard the infant suffered a "severe direct impact" to the head akin to that seen in "a high-speed motorcycle collision or a multi-level fall." It reported forensic pathologist Dr. Nathaniel Cary said the injuries were the result of severe trauma, such as being "thrown to floor or against a solid direct upright surface," and that consultant paediatric neurosurgeon Amedeo Calisto said, "Everything that could have been broken was broken here." The Daily Mail reported a fractured skull and a large swelling of the brain, and that the infant died after a cardiac arrest that afternoon at a London hospital, after being taken first to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate. Kent Online named the London hospital as King's College Hospital. The BBC said a London hospital and did not print King's College. The BBC reported Wharmby told an officer he woke around 4 a.m., saw a lump, gave the infant Calpol and a bottle, then woke about half an hour later to screaming and a swollen head and took the infant to the mother. The Daily Mail printed a longer version of that account, including a 1 a.m. feed and a 4:30 a.m. scream. The BBC and the Daily Mail reported he was found to have lied about the sequence. Kent Police's February release said he was arrested and then bailed while enquiries continued. Kent Online said he was arrested the same day, first on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and then for murder.

The BBC reported Wharmby had visited a pornography website about 10 minutes before the mother called for an ambulance. The Daily Mail reported a pornography website just minutes before that call. Kent Online reported he had been on an adult website three minutes before emergency services were alerted, and it named the site. About 10 minutes, just minutes, and three minutes are not the same interval. Kent Online reported he admitted a "short fuse" and that he could "lose control," described him as a former fish and chip shop worker with no previous convictions, and said the trial lasted three weeks. The Daily Mail reported he admitted anger issues and that he could sometimes "lose control." Kent Online reported the grievous-bodily-harm count concerned an earlier injury, that experts found an older brain bleed up to five weeks before the death, and that the infant had been under the care of social services after the biological father raised concerns and was not on a child-protection plan. The biological father is not named here. Detective Inspector Adam Marshall told the BBC, "This was a deeply distressing case." The longer statement the Daily Mail and Kent Online printed used the child's name. This story does not. Kent Online reported the judge told the jury, "It's been a hard case to hear." All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.