A JURY today began its second day of deliberations on a babysitter accused of murdering a toddler.

Suzanne Holdsworth, 38, is on trial for the second time charged with killing two-year-old Kyle Fisher in her home in Hartlepool in July 2004.

Yesterday, the jury spent around five hours considering its verdict. They returned to the courtroom to request to see video footage taken from inside the home of Kyle's mother, Clare Fisher, and asked to hear the tape of the 999 call made to the ambulance service by Holdsworth.

Members also asked for another look at the bannister from the staircase in Holdsworth's home.

The prosecution allege the mother-of-two repeatedly banged the little boy's head against the bannisters after snapping in a fit of temper.

Holdsworth was jailed for life for murder in 2005, but the Court of Appeal overturned the conviction in May - ruling it unsafe - and ordered a retrial.

The trial at Teesside Crown Court heard evidence from medical experts, appearing for the defence, who said an epileptic seizure was most likely to have led to Kyle's death.

The defence also told the jury of eight men and four women that they could not be sure that Holdsworth inflicted the fatal blows on Kyle - blaming his mother, now 24.

The former supermarket worker, of Boggart Hill Drive, Seacroft, Leeds, denies murder.