Man found guilty of killing baby

Faisal Younas will be sentenced next month

A father has been found guilty of shaking his eight-month-old baby daughter to death.

A jury at the High Court in Glasgow found Faisal Younas guilty of culpable homicide at his home in Pollokshields, Glasgow, in September 2005.

Eight-month-old Alishba, who was born on 25 December 2004, suffered head and neck injuries. She died at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow.

Younas, 35, who was refused bail, will be sentenced next month.

He was initially charged with murder following the assault.

Child witness

However, last week the Crown withdrew the charge and asked the jury to find him guilty of culpable homicide.

Alishba died from a brain injury two days after she was admitted to hospital.

A video taped interview with a four-year-old boy, who claimed that Younas had assaulted Alishba when he was in the room, was shown by the Crown during the nine-week trial.

The boy claimed that Younas stormed into the living room, slapped Alishba in the face and head and punched him to the floor.

No bruising

A post-mortem examination revealed that the surface of Alishba's brain had been torn and there was bleeding in the brain and behind her eyes.

But there was no trace of bruising which would have been expected if someone had shaken her violently or slapped her face.

Younas, who was a property developer in Pakistan before he came to Scotland with his wife Bano in 2001, claimed that he found his baby daughter choking in her car chair.

He said he tried to revive her before driving to the doctor's surgery a few minutes away.

Following the guilty verdict the judge, Lord Hardie, called for reports before sentencing.