A neighbour felt her floor pounding as the man in the flat below blared an Eminem CD at the time he is said to have shaken his 10-week-old daughter to death, a court heard.

Darren Turner, 32, had amphetamines, cocaine, morphine and cannabis in his system when he allegedly inflicted a fatal head injury on baby Mya-May.

He had visited the child's mother, his ‘on-off’ partner Danielle Cox, at her flat in Thamesmead, southeast London, shortly after 1pm on 4 November 2016 and was alone in the apartment looking after the girl when the mother went out.

Prosecutor Sarah Whitehouse QC said one of Ms Cox’s neighbours, Stephanie Herbert, heard a male voice shouting amidst loud music between 2.30pm and 3pm that afternoon.

Darren Turner, 32, arrives at the Old Bailey; he denies manslaughter and cruelty to a child

‘That half-hour was crucial because it is during that time that the prosecution say Mya-May suffered the assault which eventually led to her death,’ she said.

Today Ms Herbert described to jurors at the Old Bailey how the ‘floor was vibrating underneath my feet’ with the noise of the rapper’s CD.

‘I live in quite an old block of flats with thick concrete floors and generally don’t hear my neighbours,’ she said.

‘I am surrounded by children and don’t hear them. I don’t hear their television, don’t hear their music.’

She described hearing music coming from the flat below on numerous earlier occasions, but said it was never ‘as loud as it was that day.’

Asked whether she may have been exaggerating the volume, Ms Herbert added: ‘The floor was vibrating underneath my feet; that’s how loud the music was.’

She described recognising Turner as being someone who regularly visited the flat and always assumed the male voice shouting a number of times was him after spotting him arriving.

Talking about the raised voice she heard on November 4, Ms Herbert said: ‘The way that this person shouts, if somebody shouted at me like that I would be afraid first of all, and I think people would recognise the voice.

‘It was the same voice I heard on previous occasions.’

Jurors at the Old Bailey (pictured) were told by a witness the 'floor was vibrating underneath my feet'

Jurors heard two police officers later attended each flat where they found the rap CD still sitting in the stereo’s disc tray.

One of them went up to Ms Herbert’s apartment while the other remained downstairs, slowly increasing the volume.

The officer who went upstairs told jurors she could only hear the music when the sound was ramped up to level 60 - the maximum volume.

After going back down to Ms Cox’s flat, she described it being ‘intolerable to be in the same room’ as the stereo system while the CD was blaring.

She said it was ‘painful to listen to’, adding that she had to shut her eyes and walk out because ‘it was too loud’.

Jurors heard Mya-May was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital just before 4pm that afternoon and died six days later having suffered a severe head injury.

Ms Whitehouse said pathologist Dr Nat Cary found Mya-May had been subjected to a ‘forceful gripping of her chest.’

‘At the same time of the gripping of her chest she had suffered a head injury and it is that head injury which ultimately proved to be fatal.’

‘In the opinion of Dr Cary the injuries seen in this baby was consistent, or typical, of the kind of injury seen when a child is shaken or thrown on to a soft surface.’

The expert found Mya-May had suffered subdural haemorrhages; extensive, recent, internal bleeding in both eyes, affecting the retinas and optic nerves; and multiple posterior rib fractures.

Jurors were told the fractures had occurred at two different times - one several days prior to her death, including the period shortly before her admission to hospital, and the second several weeks before then.

‘Dr Cary concluded that ‘Overall, this is the sort of pattern of injuries seen when an infant is forcibly squeezed, shaken and thrown down onto soft furnishings, a so-called shake-throw mechanism,’ Ms Whitehouse added.

Turner, of Titmuss Avenue, Thamesmead, southeast London, denies manslaughter and cruelty to a child.

The trial continues.