Mother jailed for causing death of baby daughter in London flat

Fartun Jamal was said to have gone out partying just days before Nafahat’s death ‘surrounded by walls covered in faeces’. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA

A mother has been jailed for causing her 11-month-old daughter’s death while keeping her in squalid conditions “surrounded by walls covered in faeces”, according to police.

Nafahat Jamal died of a chest infection after weeks of neglect at the hands of Fartun Jamal at her flat in Brent Park, London.