A father accused of murdering his 13-week-old baby told a 999 operator 'it just stopped breathing' after infant collapsed with a traumatic brain injury. Klevi Pirjani, 37, and his partner Nivalda Santos Pirjani, 34, from Seacombe, Wirral, appeared in court this morning charged with murder, causing or allowing the death of a child and grievous bodily harm with intent.As the trial opened at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, jurors heard the couple are accused of 'systematically physically abusing' their baby son Miguel, leading to his death at Alder Hey Children's Hospital on November 29 last year.Both deny all the charges against them.Prosecutor Peter Wright told how Klevi Pirjani called emergency services at 11:57am on November 24 to report that his son was unresponsive and not breathing.'He told the operator that Miguel "just stopped breathing". Curiously, he referred to his son as "it" - "it just stopped breathing",' Mr Wright said.'It's a matter for you to consider in due course as to whether this was a product of distress on his part, a language barrier, or an unintended indication of his attitude towards Miguel.'Paramedics arrived at the family home on Percy Road, Seacombe, 'within minutes' and found Miguel in cardiac arrest. Emergency services were called to a property on Percy Road on November 24 following reports of concern for a child Klevi Pirjani, 37, and his partner Nivalda Santos Pirjani, 34, are accused of the murder of their 13-week-old son Miguel They managed to revive him, but his condition remained 'extremely serious' and he was taken by ambulance to Alder Hey Children's Hospital.Mr Wright said: 'Curiously, at this time Nivalda asserted that she didn't care for Miguel. It was, she said, Klevi that did so.' He added that Nivalda appeared to be preventing police from talking to her other children, saying they were shy and didn't speak to strangers.He said: 'At the hospital, Klevi was seeking updates, but seemed concerned as to what information the police knew.'At no stage was Nivalda asking for any updates as to Miguel's condition. As they travelled independently of each other to the hospital there were repeated efforts to contact each other. 'When contact was made, Nivalda appeared aggressive towards Klevi in tone.'When they met up at the hospital they were speaking in whispered tones. Neither seemed surprised when arrested at the hospital on suspicion of having caused Miguel's then-discovered injuries.'Upon being admitted to hospital, doctors noticed Miguel appeared to have bruising on the left side of his head. A CT scan found the baby had suffered a 'fissure' to his skull and a brain bleed, along with multiple fractures of varying ages to his right collar bone, left upper arm, and left shin. Tributes outside a house on Percy Road in Seacombe, Merseyside, after the death of three-month-old Miguel Pirjani Miguel died at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool (pictured) on November 29 after the withdrawal of life supportMr Wright said: 'The inevitable conclusion to be drawn from the injuries was that Miguel had been subjected to a course of conduct in which serious and obvious injuries had been sustained.'In hospital, Miguel's condition was described as 'irreversible' and he never regained consciousness. He died on November 29 after the withdrawal of life support.Mr Wright told the court: 'At the time of his passing, his mother was permitted to hold his hand. Whilst present, she was heard (by a medic) to say "I should have protected you".'A post-mortem revealed a number of previous fractures to Miguel's body. It also revealed the presence of bruising around his left eye; retinal haemorrhages, displaced skull bones, bleeding on both sides of the brain, bleeding around the cervical cord and a fatal hypoxic ischaemic brain injury (starvation of oxygen to the brain).In a police interview, Nivalda Pirjani claimed in a prepared statement that Klevi was abusive and had previously assaulted her two older children.She did not blame her partner for Miguel's injuries, but said 'she was frightened of Klevi and feared what he may do'. She also repeated her claim that Klevi was the one responsible for looking after Miguel.Mr Wright said: 'We say her account... is a fiction calculated to conceal her own involvement in these events and to infer that any responsibility for the injuries sustained by Miguel and his death are the sole responsibility of her partner Klevi. 'We say they were in it together from the start.'In a separate interview, Klevi disputed his partner's claims, and said his son had attended numerous appointments with healthcare professionals and no concerns had been raised. He queried whether Miguel's rib fractures could have been the result of CPR.Mr Wright said: 'The evidence demonstrates that the injuries to Miguel's ribs were of varying ages. 'Some had been inflicted in advance of the 24th. Any fractures later found were, in the opinion of the Home Office Forensic Pathologist, not consistent with CPR. 'Each of the injuries found whether fatal or non-fatal were, in his professional opinion, non-accidental in origin.'He added: 'We say Miguel was systematically physically abused by his parents. They caused him really serious non-fatal injury with intent so to do. They caused or allowed his death.'The trial continues.