A woman who fractured the skull of her seven-week-old daughter has been convicted of her murder.
Sarah Ngaba, 32, accepted she caused “dreadful, life-shortening and life-limiting” head injuries to Eliza, but had denied murder, pleading guilty instead to a charge of infanticide.
A jury at Birmingham Crown Court deliberated for more than nine hours, over three days, before finding her guilty of murder by a majority verdict of 10 to two.
Ngaba, formerly of Telford, Shropshire, is due to be sentenced on 12 June. The court had heard Eliza had died aged two, in 2022, from a respiratory infection, having been left vulnerable by the skull fracture in 2019.
