'I feared my son would die after he fractured his skull... I never imagined I would be blamed for it'

A mum-of-one has spoken of her anguish at being wrongly suspected of assaulting her son after he suffered a fractured skull.

Tanya Jagger was threatened with court action and had to have supervised contact with her 18-month-old son Carter Millbanks Lewis for two months, after he was hospitalised with the horrific injury.

After an extensive investigation, police said there was no evidence to suggest an assault had taken place and no further action was taken.

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The cause of Tanya son’s injury still remains unexplained. Tanya had picked him up from Acorn Nursery, off Green Bank Lane, in Northwich on November 17 last year, when she claims she noticed her son had been crying uncontrollably, and had a puffy face.

When she asked staff at the childcare centre how he'd been, she claims they told her he'd been 'up and down,' and at around 3pm he got 'really upset' and was "inconsolable."

Tanya didn't realise anything was wrong, as although he had been visibly upset, there was no sign or mention of any injury, she claims. It was only when she put her son in the bath later that afternoon and went to wash his hair that she claims she noticed a large soft lump on his head.

After calling a friend who works as a nurse, she decided to take Carter to hospital. She drove her son to Wythenshawe Hospital, but never could have imagined what would happen next.

Speaking to the M.E.N, she said: "He fell asleep in the car and when we got to the hospital I couldn't wake him up. They took him straight to the resuscitation room and he finally came round.

"They wanted to do a CT scan. I was none the wiser but safeguarding nurses came. They took him