{"id":5391,"date":"2026-06-12T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/callous-mum-who-fractured-babys-skull-and-stopped-for-lottery-ticket-on-way-to-hospital-jailed-for-life\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:03:22","slug":"callous-mum-who-fractured-babys-skull-and-stopped-for-lottery-ticket-on-way-to-hospital-jailed-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/callous-mum-who-fractured-babys-skull-and-stopped-for-lottery-ticket-on-way-to-hospital-jailed-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Callous mum who fractured baby&#8217;s skull and stopped for lottery ticket on way to hospital jailed\u00a0for life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<h2 class=\"LeadText_lead-text__wd_PA __className_1a5e55\" data-testid=\"leadtext\">Sarah Ngaba, 32, was today jailed for life after she admitted causing &#8216;dreadful, life-shortening and life-limiting&#8217; head injuries to Eliza Ngaba and was convicted of her murder<\/h2>\n<div class=\"Byline_byline-container__K_Owl\" data-testid=\"byline\"><span class=\"Byline_byline-content-wrapper__Imque\" data-testid=\"byline-content\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"Byline_author-badge-date-wrapper__Q7jj1\">\n<p><span class=\"\" data-testid=\"byline-publishedDate\"><\/span><span class=\"ArticleTimestamp_updated-date__7qD4Q ArticleTimestamp_updated-date-with-published__iFKpF\" data-testid=\"byline-updatedDate\">Updated <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"SlideViewerButton_slide-viewer-button__BDJoG\" aria-label=\"Open image viewer\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-controls=\"image-lightbox\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-embed__0T8WX ImageEmbed_image-lead__Ti3qQ\" data-testid=\"leadimage\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"37188601\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-container__2AIQm\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__Uce4f\" style=\"--figure-aspect-ratio:1.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sarah Ngaba was convicted of the murder of her seven-week-old daughter\" loading=\"eager\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 508px, (max-width: 615px) 615px, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37188601.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200f\/2_BIR_Sarah-NgabaJPG.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37188601.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s508\/2_BIR_Sarah-NgabaJPG.jpg 508w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37188601.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615\/2_BIR_Sarah-NgabaJPG.jpg 615w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37188601.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200f\/2_BIR_Sarah-NgabaJPG.jpg 1200w\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"ImageCaption_caption__j7HRu\" data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p aria-label=\"Sarah Ngaba was convicted of the murder of her seven-week-old daughter\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Sarah Ngaba was convicted of the murder of her seven-week-old daughter<cite aria-label=\"Image: BPM Media\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-credit__wlx1W\" data-testid=\"caption-credit\">(Image: BPM Media)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A mum has been jailed for life with a minimum of 12 years after she murdered her seven-week-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Sarah Ngaba, 32, fractured the infant\u2019s skull and then stopped to buy a lottery ticket before taking her to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Ngaba accepted that she caused \u201cdreadful, life-shortening and life-limiting\u201d head injuries to Eliza Ngaba, but denied murder, claiming she was instead guilty of infanticide. But in May a jury at Birmingham Crown Court found her guilty of Eliza\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">At the sentencing hearing today Trial judge Mrs Justice Brunner KC sentenced Ngaba to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 12 years and 154 days. The judge described the killing as \u201cthe culmination of increasingly hostile behaviour\u201d towards the infant.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"image-group\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"SlideViewerButton_slide-viewer-button__BDJoG\" aria-label=\"Open image viewer\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-controls=\"image-lightbox\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-embed__0T8WX false\" data-testid=\"imageembed-37286314\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"37286314\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"image\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-container__2AIQm\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__Uce4f\" style=\"--figure-aspect-ratio:1.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eliza Ngaba suffered dreadful, life-shortening and life-limiting head injuries the court heard\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 458px, (max-width: 615px) 615px, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37286314.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200e\/0_Telford-mother-who-fractured-babys-skull-leaving-her-disabled-jailed-for-life.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37286314.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458b\/0_Telford-mother-who-fractured-babys-skull-leaving-her-disabled-jailed-for-life.jpg 458w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37286314.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_Telford-mother-who-fractured-babys-skull-leaving-her-disabled-jailed-for-life.jpg 615w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article37286314.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200e\/0_Telford-mother-who-fractured-babys-skull-leaving-her-disabled-jailed-for-life.jpg 1200w\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"ImageCaption_caption__j7HRu\" data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p aria-label=\"Eliza Ngaba suffered dreadful, life-shortening and life-limiting head injuries the court heard\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Eliza Ngaba suffered dreadful, life-shortening and life-limiting head injuries the court heard<cite aria-label=\"Image: West Mercia Police\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-credit__wlx1W\" data-testid=\"caption-credit\">(Image: West Mercia Police)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Ngaba, formerly of Briarwood in Brookside, Telford, Shropshire, was previously convicted of causing grievous bodily harm to her child, who was left profoundly disabled by the assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Ngaba was charged with murder after London-born Eliza died aged two in August 2022 from a respiratory infection, having been left vulnerable by the assault in November 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/callous-mum-who-fractured-babys-37285911\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Ngaba, 32, was today jailed for life after she admitted causing &#8216;dreadful, life-shortening and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2_BIR_Sarah-NgabaJPG.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}