Mother who murd£red baby daughter is jailed for life.

A mother has been handed a minimum jail term of more than 12 years for murd£ring her seven-week-old daughter.

annoyed, detached and concerned about housing rather than her baby’s medical emergency.”

The prosecutor continued: “The prosecution says that this sequence of events is important.

“Eliza was visibly shaking. The defendant was told to take her to A&E. An ambulance was suggested. She didn’t call one.

“She chose to bathe and dress first, accepted a delayed taxi, went to a supermarket, bought a lottery ticket, travelled calmly to hospital, and did not even rush when she got there.

“That evidence is difficult to reconcile with the suggestion that the assault on Eliza was the product of an acute childbirth-caused disturbance of mind.

“It is more consistent with a lack of urgency, with detachment, self-concern, and a failure simply to prioritise her daughter’s welfare.”

Ngaba is alleged to have told a nursing sister that Eliza had not fed since around 5am and to have made no reference to her having suffered any sort of physical trauma.
Mr Hankin told jurors: “The impression she gave was that Eliza was simply unwell.

“That’s important because Eliza’s neurological injuries were so severe that after they had been inflicted she could not have behaved normally, interacted normally, or fed normally.

“When Eliza was taken out of the pram, the nurse immediately saw she was in a state of collapse: pale, unresponsive, gasping, and having seizures.

“Indeed she was concerned that Eliza was about to die and she required immediate emergency resuscitation.”

The court heard Eliza’s injuries were caused by forceful shaking “together with a very significant impact” to the head, causing a complex skull fracture.

Referring to Ngaba’s claim of infanticide, Mr Hankin added: “The defence will say that, at the time of the assault, the balance of the defendant’s mind was disturbed, and it was disturbed at least in part because she had not fully recovered from the effects of giving birth.

“The prosecution says the evidence does not justify such a conclusion.

“The prosecution says that when the evidence is looked at carefully, the true picture is not one of a childbirth-related disturbance of mind – it is one of anger, frustration, resentment, and a loss of self-control.”

The trial continues.