Jan Gholami must serve at least 23-and-a-half years for murdering his two-year-old adopted daughter.
Jan Gholami claimed he was out food shopping when the incident happened at their home in Gravesend, Kent Police saidThe adoptive father of a two-year-old girl has been jailed for life for her murder.on the 27 May 2020 and died two days later.
A judge said he "habitually" treated female family members in a "brutal and brutish way", and sentenced him to a minimum of 23-and-a-half years in prison. She had previously been found not guilty of murder and the jury was unable to reach a verdict on the charge of allowing the death of a child.- had adopted Zahra from Afghanistan, where they both had lived before moving to the UK.Zahra suffered a skull fracture caused by "significant impact with significant energy", jurors heard
He said: "I sentence you not on the basis that your fatal attack was a one-off, but rather that it was the culmination of the brutal and brutish way you habitually treated the female members of your family.""You did that while Zahra was on the floor fighting for her life - if there had been any hope of saving her, your actions made it less likely she'd survive," he added.
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