A young man who spent almost six years in jail for shaking his baby son has since learned the boy had a congenital heart condition that causes seizures, casting doubt on whether the 2019 conviction was sound.

Jesse Harvey was jailed for recklessly causing serious injury to his seven-week-old son Casey by shaking him – the result of a diagnosis of abuse at the Royal Children’s Hospital.

Harvey has recently been released after serving his full sentence, but insists he is innocent. While he was in prison, Harvey’s mother died and Casey died in 2022.

Casey’s death certificate, obtained by this masthead’s investigative podcast, Diagnosing Murder , reveals a South Australian coroner concluded the boy’s cause of death was “aspiration and tracheitis [choking] on a background of acquired brain

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