An evil killer made his partner’s 16-month-old daughter squat in the corner and regularly inflicted cruel punishments onto the baby girl.
Kamran Haider has been jailed for life after he killed his partner’s daughter Nusayba Bint-Umar.
He made the young tot squat in the corner of the room for up to 40 minutes if she cried and regularly told her to “shut up” and that she “didn’t deserve to look pretty”, My London reports .
Nusayba, from Ilford, East London, suffered a “severe and life-threatening head injury” on September 13, 2019, after her mum overheard Haider beating her.
Four days later her life support was switched off and she died.
After a trial held at the Old Bailey, Haider was found guilty of her murder and sentenced to life behind bars, with a minimum of 20 years.
Over the course of the three-week trial, jurors were told how Haider would often become annoyed whenever the young toddler cried and forced her into uncomfortable “stress positions”.
Then he would slap her hands if she ever tried to move.
When giving evidence, Nusayba’s mum, Asiyah Amazir said that Haider, her boyfriend, had become “jealous” of the attention she gave her daughter.
She said he berated her for being “too soft” on the girl and introduced “time-outs” whenever the 16-month-old cried, forcing her to squat in the corner of the room for long periods of time as punishment.
These cruel and vindictive punishments would sometimes happen as often as three times a day and during the night if Nusaybe woke up and cried.
If Ms Amazir tried to intervene, Haider would become abusive and slap her on the back of the head.
Speaking from behind a screen, she said: “I never understood why he used to take her hair tie out. He said she doesn't deserve to look pretty when she’s in ‘time out’.”
He would also refer to the toddler as a “bastard c***” and would get irritated quickly over small stains or messes.
At this point, Ms Amazir, had only been in a relationship with Haider, an illegal puppy breeder, for a few weeks, who she met online and moved in to help with his business.
Haider had previously been accused of attacking a former girlfriend and abusing her children just to “teach them a lesson”.
On August 28, she left Nusayba in Haider’s care when she went to a nail salon but he called her to say her daughter had fallen.
She wanted to call the ambulance but Haider became aggressive and claimed she was trying to ruin his illegal business.
Ms Amazir recalled: "Very quickly he became aggressive. He grabbed me, pushed me against the wall by my chest, started screaming ‘I’m a ruthless motherf***er, you’re going to get police to my address, no one is going to take my dogs’.”
Despite this, she got a taxi to take them to the hospital where doctors treated her injuries and Ms Amazir lied about her daughter’s injuries.
When questioned by the court, she said she had lied because she was "scared" of the repercussions from Haider.
She returned home, and then over the next few weeks Haider continued to inflict cruel and bizarre punishments on the injured 16-month-old.
Only then, Ms Amazir decided to pack her things and leave, following an argument on September 13.
That morning, when tending to the dogs, she heard Haider “slapping” Nusayba.
She told jurors: “I heard her crying, I thought she'd woken up - and that's when I heard him hit her.
“Then I heard him say ‘Shut up Nusayba’ and I heard him hit her, I heard it two or three times. It was an impact sound and then I heard her make this really strange yelping noise, so I think he hit her quite hard.”
Throughout the next day her condition worsened and then around 5pm she began suffering a fit.
She was rushed to hospital but despite the best efforts of medics, they were unable to save her and her life support was switched off four days later, on September 17.
A CT scan revealed Nusayba was suffering from a subdural haemorrhage, swelling of the brain,
Prosecutor Edward Brown QC told the court: "Her death was most likely to have been caused by violent shaking - so her head was thrown back and forwards - but not just shaking as there was evidence of impact too. It was this that caused the very severe brain injury which killed her."
Haider was arrested and charged with her murder and cruelty to a child but had denied both charges and was convicted following three days of deliberation.
Sentencing him to life imprisonment, Judge Cheema-Grubb said: “It is clear to me Kamran Haider wanted Ms Amazir’s assistance with his unlicensed dog breeding business, and her child got in the way.
“He was prone to temper tantrums and resented the attention Nusayba got from her mother. I have no doubt that he had punished Nusayba harshly and had assaulted her on more than one occasion.”
She continued: “He is someone who has a propensity to abuse and control women and children who come into his sphere of influence."
In victim impact statements read aloud in court, Ms Amazir described her daughter as a "princess" and said she had been killed in a "cruel, heartless and inhumane manner".
She said: "I will never get to see her grow up, hear her first full sentence, see her first day at school, her first tooth loss, her first proper tantrum and all the other beautiful milestones that a mother witnesses throughout her children’s lives.
"I will never get to hold her again or kiss her tiny hands, tickle her, put her in a pretty dress or buy her a toy that I know she wants, all the most benign and underrated things that most take for granted as parents have been taken from me and cannot be given back."
Her dad Muhammad Umar also said he was "horrified" to hear of the abuse Nusayba had endured and that Haider had "destroyed his life".
