Dad jailed for killing six week old daughter

Published: 8:00AM GMT 20 Feb 2010

Olusola Akinrele who was jailed for life after he murdered his six-week-old daughter Photo: PA

Olusola Akinrele, 34, violently shook and slammed his six-week old daughter against a hard surface causing fatal brain damage.

Akinrele inflicted a campaign of violent abuse against Leeya in the three weeks before her death leaving her with a horrific catalogue of injuries.

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When she was not asleep, she was "in excruciating pain" constantly crying after suffering 22 broken ribs, broken fingers, a fracture to the right thigh and skull, and bite wounds to her face and hands.

But Nigerian-born Akinrele, who came on a student visa but overstayed, had no interest in Leeya simply seeing her as a ticket to avoid deportation, the Old Bailey heard.

The little girl was rushed to hospital in December 2006 and 12 days later her life support machine was switched off.

Doctors then discovered the injuries and saw marks to her nose, fingers and thigh.

Branded a man with a short violent temper with "psychopathic traits" Akinrele was found guilty of her murder after a trial at Ipswich Crown Court last November.

he child"s mother, Kelly Inman, 22, also of Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, admitted allowing the baby"s death and was jailed for three years.

Sentencing Akinrele Judge Philip Clegg said: "It"s plain from the evidence the court heard during the course of the trial you have little or no interest in Leeya.

"You simply saw her birth as helping you avoid deportation."

Because Akinrele has already spent nearly three years on remand he is eligible for automatic deportation.