Granada Preston Crown Court

Ryan Wellings, 30, is accused of the manslaughter of Miss Dawes who left their eight-month-old daughter with a friend before taking her own life.

Kiena Dawes, 23, left her nine-month-old daughter with a friend, along with a suicide note and took her own life on a railway line.

A mother accused of squeezing her baby to death has been cleared of murder.