Jury accept two year-old could have died when she ‘fell in the kitchen’

A father has been cleared of murdering his two-year-old daughter after insisting she fell off a kitchen worktop. Rejwanul Islam, 26, was said to have inflicted a fatal head injury to Mariyah Islam at their home in Euston, north London on 2 March 2016. Islam then failed to call an ambulance for the toddler, despite living a few minutes away from University College Hospital, it was said. Little Mariya died from a severe brain injury three days later, Blackfriars Crown…

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