This is the sickening moment a killer dad spun a web of lies to paramedics trying to save his son's life - whom he had just beaten to death.
Vile Michael Harrison has been sentenced to at least 21 years in jail for killing his 11-year-old son Mikey, who tragically died on June 18 2022.
Following his deadly attack, Harrison drove them both to Shipley Country Park, Heanor, Derbyshire and called an ambulance, saying Mikey had fallen out of a tree when they were playing hide and seek.
CCTV captures the nightmare scene as it played out - with Harrison brazenly walking to one of the paramedic vehicles and talking to a police officer.
He is seen sat in the front of the vehicle feigning concern as paramedics work on Mikey nearby.
Harrison also went on to clear his property in a desperate attempt to cover his tracks.
Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word 'family' as he was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years, the court heard how Harrison, 41, "went crazy" and beat his son to death, punching him repeatedly to the body and even causing a laceration to the youngster's liver.
Tragically, Mikey may well have survived, the court was told, if he had received prompt treatment.
Sentencing Harrison for the murder of Mikey Harrison, Judge Shaun Smith KC said the defendant had lied about the killing and taken the victim to a park as part of an attempted cover-up.
DerbyshireLive reported the judge told the 41-year-old: “At 18 minutes past one on Saturday June 18 (2022) you embarked upon a charade solely intended to protect yourself.
“That was because you had attacked your 11-year-old son Mikey. You hit and punched him many times. At least one of those blows was so hard it lacerated his liver.
“Rather than face up to what you had done, you made a call to the ambulance service to report that Mikey had fallen out of a tree.
“What you did that morning ended the life of a little boy and emptied the lives of many others.”
At the picturesque park, Harrison began his cover-up, ringing 999 and lying to them.
His entire account was described in court as "utter fiction".
When emergency services got to the park, they found Mikey sitting in the front passenger seat of Harrison's van.
Peter Joyce, KC, prosecuting, said Mikey had been struggling to breathe and was rushed to hospital where he sadly died just over an hour later.
The prosecutor said: "The defendant said he had been on a day out with Mikey at Shipley Park and they were playing hide and seek. The defendant said he had not seen Mikey climb a tree but heard him fall. This entire account of the fall was utter fiction.
"This was made up by the defendant to cover up the fact that he himself had fatally injured his son and was attempting to cover up his actions by taking him to the park.
"The defendant made every attempt to cover up what happened, the bungalow where they lived was visited by crime scene investigators on June 30, all of the windows were open and the house had been stripped of almost every item one would expect to find in a home.
"The meter was missing and there was no power to the premises."
Mr Joyce said the initial post-mortem examination found a large number of bruises and grazes "all of recent origin" as well as a laceration to Mikey's liver.
