By Gerard Tubb, North of England Correspondent
The father of a four-year-old boy whose mummified body was found in his mother's bedroom has told a court he had previously called social services with his concerns but they "weren't bothered".
Aftab Khan said his former partner Amanda Hutton had thrown him out of the family home after he complained about the welfare of their son Hamzah.
Jurors were also told Hamzah was seen being fed as little as half of a supermarket pasty for evening meals.
The little boy's body was discovered in a cot in Hutton's Bradford home in September 2011, surrounded by rotting rubbish and faeces.
Bradford Crown Court has heard how he had died almost two years earlier, in December 2009.
Mr Khan told the court how he had separated from 43-year-old Hutton after he was charged with assaulting her.
The mechanic and taxi driver told the court that it was his concerns about his son that had led to the arguments resulting in his arrest in 2008 and eventual conviction for battery.
He said: "She wasn't bathing him. She wasn't changing him."
Mr Khan said he would only see Hutton feeding Hamzah milk. He said his former partner drank cider and vodka heavily, especially after the death of her mother.
Amanda Hutton denies the manslaughter of her son "She'd be absolutely out of it," he said.
Mr Khan, Hutton's partner of 22 years, told the jury he had phoned social services in December 2009 or January 2010, but that he was ignored.
"I remember ringing social services, they said it was a private matter and they weren't bothered," he claimed.
"Social services are never bothered in cases like these."
The court heard that no record exists of any such call.
He said he was initially stopped from visiting Hutton due to a court order but did start to go and see his son when they moved to a new home in Bradford in March 2009.
Mr Khan told the jury his former partner was not looking after Hamzah properly.
"I said 'look at the state of him - you're not looking after him' and she told me to get out," he told the jury.
In heated exchanges with the judge and defence barrister Stephen Meadowcroft QC, Mr Khan said he refused to be blamed for Hamzah's death.
Accused by Mr Meadowcroft of being "a violent bully" and a wife-beater, he gestured to Hutton in the dock and said: "If I am a wife-beater why am I not stood next to her?"
Mr Meadowcroft replied: "Well perhaps you ought to be."
Mr Khan said: "You've got damaging evidence against Miss Hutton but you're still trying to point the finger at me - well I'm not having it."
Also giving evidence at the trial was Deepinder Kaur, the former partner of Hamzah's older brother Qaiser, who described conditions in the Bradford house in 2009.
"Hamzah didn't have proper meals, the only meal he had was in the evening, but even then he didn't have proper meals," she said.
Asked to provide more details of what Hamzah ate in the two weeks she stayed in the house, Ms Kaur said he had "lots of milk".
She said his breakfast was half a banana and during the day he would eat biscuits "or whatever's lying around", while his evening meal would be half a cheese and onion pasty.
She said Hutton drank during the day and was drunk almost every night, while Hamzah sat on the floor watching TV or was locked in his bedroom.
"When she was drunk she wasn't a very nice person," she said.
Ms Kaur said when she picked Hamzah up he was "very small and light," and that with hindsight he was "definitely underweight".
The jury heard from a female police officer who saw Hamzah at home in April 2009 during what she called a welfare visit after concerns were raised about Hutton's parenting skills.
PC Maria Furness said Hutton opened the door at 5.15pm smelling of alcohol.
She said she spoke to Hamzah and to his older brother Tariq, who described himself to her as Hamzah's uncle.
She said she left the house "satisfied that Hamzah was fit, well, clean, healthy-looking and that there was an appropriate adult".
Hutton denies manslaughter. The trial continues.
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