A killer stepdad's lies to police over murdered Lola James were captured on chilling bodycam footage.
Kyle Bevan, 31, can be seen telling police in the squalid family home how two-year-old Lola was injured after being pushed down the stairs by the family dog.
One officer in the footage, captured on July 13 2020, agrees the dog likely weighed more than the child, to which Bevan claims he was making Lola breakfast at the time.
However, in sickening reality, Bevan had beaten little Lola to death following a campaign of horrific abuse inflicted on the toddler at the family home in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, West Wales.
Evil Bevan was today jailed for life to serve a minimum of 28 years of prison for the toddlers' murder.
The child's twisted mum, Sinead James, has been sentenced to six years - though will only spend three locked up - for causing or allowing her daughter’s death.
Bevan's mother Alison phoned 999 at 7.29am on July 17, 2020 after her son had sent her a photo of Lola limp and unresponsive.
Concerned by the picture, Mrs Bevan, who was not in the house, rang for an ambulance on her son's behalf.
She told the operator: "She's floppy and they can't wake her up.....(pause) I'm not with the patient. They've just contacted me now to call an ambulance as they haven't got credit on their phone.....I don't know the exact time, it must have just happened."
Two minutes later, at 7.31am, an emotional sounding James then called 999, sobbing: "Her eyes are swollen.......I'm really scared. (She fell) from the top of the stairs to the bottom."
After being asked if there was any serious bleeding, she replied: "No.....There's just bruising on her head and it's all swollen and her eyes....."
James is then told to stay on the line and not to move to her daughter.
Paramedics then arrived at the house at 7.34am, before taking Lola to hospital.
Recordings of the 999 calls were played for jurors during the trial at Swansea Crown Court, before they found both defendants guilty on April 4.
Jurors had previously been told that prior to the 999 call, Google searches were carried out at 6.32am on Bevan’s phone about toddlers who have taken a "bang" to the head and have "gone all limp and snoring ".
Then at 6.54am Bevan sent his mother a picture of the unconscious Lola via Facebook Messenger - with her replying to the message and telling him to call an ambulance.
Bevan was later asked by police why he didn't phone 999 straight away himself, and he said: "I panicked like, look what happened when 999 was called.
"Look at all this, I didn’t want to push… I thought she knocked herself out but obviously it was more serious than that…"
The prosecution suggested the reason Bevan did not raise the alarm immediately was because he was allegedly trying to cover up what he had done.
After the ambulance arrived, Lola was later transferred to Noah's Ark Children's Hospital in Cardiff.
She died on July 21, with the cause of death given as subdural haemorrhage and brain swelling.
One doctor later described Lola’s body as “the most bruised and battered” she had ever seen.
Lola’s injuries could have been caused by “shaking or other force applied to the head”, the trial was told and were highly suggestive of “abusive head trauma” and some form of impact.
