Father jailed for life over 'brutal' murder of baby

A FATHER was jailed for life yesterday for murdering his baby girl in a "brutal" attack.

Craig Jamieson, 30, will serve a minimum of 16 years for killing four-month-old Abbie at the Glasgow home he shared with the child's mother, Nichola Haddock.

Abbie died at Yorkhill Hospital on 8 February, 2008, following severe injuries to her head and abdomen.

During the trial at the High Court in Glasgow, Jamieson tried to blame the child's 29-year-old mother for her death. Sentencing him yesterday, temporary judge Alastair Stewart QC said: "The jury found you guilty of the brutal murder of a defenceless child.

"The nature of the injuries suggest strongly that this was not some momentary loss of control."

Yesterday, the jury took just under four hours to convict Jamieson of the charge of inflicting blunt force trauma to the baby's head and body "by means to the prosecutor unknown".