A “callous and uncaring” mother who murdered her seven-week-old daughter by shattering her skull in a fit of rage has been given a minimum jail term of more than 12 years.
Sarah Ngaba, who visited a shop to buy a lottery ticket before seeking medical help for Eliza Ngaba, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 12 years and 154 days after a judge described the killing as “the culmination of increasingly hostile behaviour” towards the infant.
Ngaba was found guilty of murder last month after jurors were told severe injuries from violent shaking and an impact to the head in November 2019 contributed to London-born Eliza’s death from an infection in August 2022.
Ngaba, formerly of Briarwood in Brookside, Telford, Shropshire, was jailed for 14 years for wounding in 2021 and charged with murder after Eliza’s death.