A DAD left his newborn daughter "like a ragdoll" after he shook her to death moments after her mum left the family home, a court heard.
Felicity-May Harvey was just 20 days old when she died after suffering "a catastrophic constellation of injuries".
Her dad Darin Harvey, 25, is accused of murdering the tot at home in Heywood in January 2021.
Harvey allegedly "physically manhandled" Felicity-May by shaking her so severely she would have become "like a ragdoll".
Jurors were told Felicity-May's mum Heather Connolly had left the family home just 15 minutes before the horror unfolded.
She had reminded Harvey to feed the baby, who was born with a cleft palate that affected her ability to feed and meant she required an "extra degree of care".
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Tim Storrie KC, prosecuting, said: "Heather Connolly was out of the home for no more than a quarter of an hour.
"By the end of that quarter of an hour, her whole world had changed."
The court was told Heather was on her way home when she received a phonecall from Harvey telling her "there's something wrong with the baby".
She rushed upstairs to find Felicity-May "limp, blue and struggling to breathe" as Harvey cradled her, asking: "What's wrong, baby? What's wrong?"
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The mum told police: "I ran round like a headless chicken. Seconds seemed like minutes and minutes seemed like hours."
Heather said she could hear her daughter "gasping" and attempted to perform CPR, jurors were told.
She added: "It was awful. She was struggling. She wasn't even crying. She was just doing these awful noises."
Felicity-May was rushed to hospital where doctors had discovered she "catastrophic" injuries to her brain, it was said.
She had also suffered a severe spinal cord injury and evidence of "very substantial bleeding in the eyes" typical of "severe, abusive head trauma" that occurs with shaking, jurors heard.
The injuries were caused by Felicity-May being "deliberately shaken, or physically manhandled in a way which no one would do unless they wanted cause her obvious harm", the prosecutor said.
Harvey told police his daughter had been "well, responsive and happy" when he went to feed her.
He also claimed he put the baby to bed after she "became sleepy".
Harvey later claimed to Felicity-May's mum that he had picked her up from the Moses basket to feed her when she "looked at him, did a little smile and her eyes rolled back", it was said.
Mr Storrie said: "We say that the trauma done to Felicity was expressive of an intention to cause her really serious harm, for there can be no other explanation for a man shaking a young child.
"For that reason, we put to you the case that Darin Harvey is guilty of murder."
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Harvey, of Heywood, Greater Manchester, denies murder.
The trial continues.
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