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An illegal immigrant murdered his six-week-old daughter after subjecting her to a catalogue of abuse.
Nigerian Olusola Akinrele saw tiny Leeya as his ticket to avoiding deportation, a judge said yesterday.
When she finally died from a brain haemorrhage she had 22 broken ribs, a fractured skull, a broken leg and bite marks around her nose.
'Psychopathic': Olusola Akinrele (left) will serve 16 years for killing his baby Leeya. Her mother, Kelly Inman (right) pleaded guilty to allowing her death and was cleared of murder
Akinrele was jailed for life yesterday and must serve at least 16 years, after which he will be deported.
The jobless 34-year-old, who had been refused permission to stay in the UK after arriving on a student visa, met Kelly Inman in 2004 and the pair had a baby.
Sentencing him, Judge Philip Clegg said: 'It is plain from the evidence that you had little or no interest in Leeya.
Murdered: Baby Leeya
'You simply saw her birth as something that might help you avoid deportation.
'You did not attend the birth and on the day of Kelly Inman's confinement you cut the phone off so you would not be troubled by it.'
'You regarded Leeya's incessant crying as an irritant. The reason for the child's incessant crying is not difficult to deduce.'
Akinrele, described by a psychiatrist as a 'manipulative individual with psychotic traits', attacked Leeya at least three times in the three weeks before her death.
Her mother dialled 999 on December 18, 2006, and paramedics arrived at the rented two-bedroom house in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, to find Leeya lying 'lifeless' on the sitting room floor. She had 'catastrophic brain damage'.
She died in hospital 12 days later when doctors decided to switch off her life support machine.
The judge added: 'Your victim could not have been more vulnerable. What you did to Leeya was a terrible breach of trust.'
He said the attack that finally killed Leeya 'must have taken the form of either violent shaking or throwing the child down hard or a combination of both'.
Akinrele denied murder, but was convicted by a jury at Ipswich Crown Court.
Inman has admitted allowing the death of a child and was jailed for five years last year. Although she visited her GP four times after the birth with post-natal medical problems, she did not take Leeya despite her being in excruciating pain.
Routine checks by midwives and a health visitor in the two and a half weeks after her birth had not given rise to any concern. A serious case review into Leeya's death will be released shortly.
hope the basads get what they deserve in prison
An illegal immigrant murdered his six-week-old daughter after subjecting her to a catalogue of abuse.
Nigerian Olusola Akinrele saw tiny Leeya as his ticket to avoiding deportation, a judge said yesterday.
When she finally died from a brain haemorrhage she had 22 broken ribs, a fractured skull, a broken leg and bite marks around her nose.
'Psychopathic': Olusola Akinrele (left) will serve 16 years for killing his baby Leeya. Her mother, Kelly Inman (right) pleaded guilty to allowing her death and was cleared of murder
Akinrele was jailed for life yesterday and must serve at least 16 years, after which he will be deported.
The jobless 34-year-old, who had been refused permission to stay in the UK after arriving on a student visa, met Kelly Inman in 2004 and the pair had a baby.
Sentencing him, Judge Philip Clegg said: 'It is plain from the evidence that you had little or no interest in Leeya.
Murdered: Baby Leeya'You simply saw her birth as something that might help you avoid deportation.
'You did not attend the birth and on the day of Kelly Inman's confinement you cut the phone off so you would not be troubled by it.'
'You regarded Leeya's incessant crying as an irritant. The reason for the child's incessant crying is not difficult to deduce.'
Akinrele, described by a psychiatrist as a 'manipulative individual with psychotic traits', attacked Leeya at least three times in the three weeks before her death.
Her mother dialled 999 on December 18, 2006, and paramedics arrived at the rented two-bedroom house in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, to find Leeya lying 'lifeless' on the sitting room floor. She had 'catastrophic brain damage'.
She died in hospital 12 days later when doctors decided to switch off her life support machine.
The judge added: 'Your victim could not have been more vulnerable. What you did to Leeya was a terrible breach of trust.'
He said the attack that finally killed Leeya 'must have taken the form of either violent shaking or throwing the child down hard or a combination of both'.
Akinrele denied murder, but was convicted by a jury at Ipswich Crown Court.
Inman has admitted allowing the death of a child and was jailed for five years last year. Although she visited her GP four times after the birth with post-natal medical problems, she did not take Leeya despite her being in excruciating pain.
Routine checks by midwives and a health visitor in the two and a half weeks after her birth had not given rise to any concern. A serious case review into Leeya's death will be released shortly.
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