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A witness overheard the child apologising for losing his shoe as he was killed in Mountsfield Park, Hither Green, southeast London, jurors heard.
Prosecutor Eleanor Laws, QC, said Iheancho had done everything to avoid responsibility.
“The man was very angry indeed and Sarah Strugnell describes how he was raging at the child who was keeping very quiet.
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Marvyn Iheanacho, has been accused of beating his girlfriend’s five-year-old son to death because he lost his shoe in a park.
The 39-year-old Nigerian man, allegedly battered Alex Malcolm against a park gate, Woolwich Crown Court.
A witness overheard the child apologising for losing his shoe as he was killed in Mountsfield Park, Hither Green, southeast London, jurors heard.
Iheanacho then allegedly carried his limp body into the park and rang the boy’s mother, Lilya Breha, to say he had fallen asleep.
Alex lay dying on the park bench in front of pedestrians with Lewisham University Hospital just five minutes walk away.
When the lifeless boy was brought home in a taxi, Iheanacho attacked his partner, Ms Breha to stop her calling an ambulance.
Prosecutor Eleanor Laws, QC, said Iheancho had done everything to avoid responsibility.
She said: “The deceased victim was a little boy named Alex Malcom.
“He was just five years-old when he died.
“Iheanacho, a man who was looking after him, acting as his step father, but who on early evening of 20th November last year, lost his temper and violently assaulted the boy, causing him fatal head and stomach injures.
Iheanacho is now accused of murdering Alex in a trial expected to last three weeks.
He insists the injuries were accidental, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
“There is no one who saw exactly what happened – there are no eye witnesses or CCTV of the actual attack – of the defendant landing blows on Alex, there is, however, clear evidence as to the defendant’s anger before Alex sustained his injuries.”
Witness Sarah Strugnell said she saw the park gate rattling as if someone was being punched against it, hearing around eight punches in quick succession.
Miss Laws said: “She heard some one walking through the gates from the park and went to have a look.
“The defendant appeared to bend down to the child and ask where the child’s shoes were.
“The child appeared to indicate that the shoes were in the park.
“The man was very angry indeed and Sarah Strugnell describes how he was raging at the child who was keeping very quiet.
“Soon after this, she describes hearing repeated booming noises, and the gate was vigorously moving as if it were being punched by someone using both fists in quick succession, about eight punches in total.
“It is the prosecution case that this banging could well have been in fact banging from repeated assaults upon Alex.
“At some point, whether during this confrontation or between this confrontation and the next sighting of the defendant by dog-walkers, soon after, back in the park, the boy had received extreme injuries.”
Judge Mark Dennis QC told jurors the main issue in the case is how Alex sustained those injuries and said the trial will last between two and three weeks. The trial continues.
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