Six-week-old Alexis Matheson, of Aberdeen, died in 2007 A man has gone on trial accused of murdering a six-week-old baby girl after various attacks in Aberdeen.
Mark Simpson, 29, denies murdering Alexis Matheson by assaulting her in the city’s Deansloch Crescent between 8 November and 9 December 2007.
He allegedly seized hold of her, shook her and compressed her chest leaving her so severely injured that she later died in hospital in Edinburgh.
Mr Simpson has gone on trial at the High Court in Aberdeen.
The case is scheduled to last several weeks.
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