An illegal immigrant who murdered the daughter he had to avoid deportation was jailed for life today.

Olusola Akinrele, 34, was told he must serve at least 16 years in prison for killing six-week-old baby girl Leeya in December 2006.

Leeya died from brain damage 12 days after her apparently lifeless body was found at her home in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. She had 22 broken ribs, a fractured skull, a fractured thigh, and had also been bitten on the nose and both hands, the Old Bailey heard.
Olusola Akinrele
Kelly Inman

'Psychopathic': Olusola Akinrele (left) will serve 16 years for killing his baby Leeya. Her mother, Kelly Inman (right) pleaded guilty to allowing her death and was cleared of murder

Judge Philip Clegg said: 'When she was not asleep, Leeya must have been in excruciating pain.'

He said Akinrele, a Nigerian, had 'little or no interest in his daughter'.

'You simply saw her birth as as something which might help you avoid deportation,' he told the killer.

Akinrele was described in a psychiatric report as 'a manipulative individual with psychopathic traits'.

He was convicted of murder by a jury at Ipswich Crown Court and faces automatic deportation on completing his sentence.

The baby's mother Kelly Inman, 22, pleaded guilty earlier to allowing her death and was cleared of murder during the trial.

She received a total sentence of five years, having also been convicted of a separate fraud charge.

It was she who called 999 after Akinrele's final attack on their daughter.

Ipswich Crown Court heard that in the two-and-a-half weeks following her birth, Leeya underwent routine checks by midwives and a health visitor and her condition had not caused concern.

But in the 24 days leading up to the emergency call, she had not been seen by health professionals and was in the care of her parents.

The judge found that the injuries she sustained during that period represented at least three separate attacks.

On one occasion, Leeya must have been shaken and 'come into forceful contact with something hard', on another severe force was applied to her right leg, and on a third she had been bitten.

The judge told Akinrele: 'During the week before she was taken to hospital, it must have been obvious to both you and Kelly that Leeya was a very sick child who needed immediate treatment.'

On December 18 2006, the baby's father was alone upstairs with his daughter when he carried out the attack that killed her.

The judge said: 'The attack must have taken the form of either violent shaking or throwing the child down hard.'

He told Akinrele that her death was the 'culmination of a violent course of conduct committed by you against your daughter over two or three weeks'.

'Your victim could not have been more vulnerable. She was only six weeks old and to your knowledge weak and ill.

'It is to be expected that any child should look to its parent for protection. What you did to Leeya was a terrible breach of trust.'

The court heard Akinrele had never been interested in his baby, failing to attend ante-natal classes or the birth, during which he turned his phone off to avoid being disturbed.

He saw her 'incessant crying' as an 'irritant', the judge said.

The fatal attack, he added, took place during a 'sudden flash of temper'.

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only 5 yr sentence for the mother who allowed this Poo. to happen?! no wonder people are saying that the UK court system is too soft!!!!!!

Olusola Akinrele

The real Olusola Akinrele

What a sick freak!
So, killing his daughter would help him remain in the country
they are so many psychoic fools in this world.

@july123
you forgot to put the pic of the sick biatch baby mama who let this thing go on for so long too.

what a sick world we live in

How does killing the daughter will allow him to remain?

or am I missing something.

That poor baby. 

otawa:

How does killing the daughter will allow him to remain?

or am I missing something.

well i guess a lifetime in a UK jail seemed better than life in 9ja for this guy.

hey, at least he is going to have 3 warm meals a day, a warm bed to sleep in and become someone's b.i.t.c.h for the next 16yrs.

MRbrownJAY:

well i guess a lifetime in a UK jail seemed better than life in 9ja for this guy.

hey, at least he is going to have 3 warm meals a day, a warm bed to sleep in and become someone's b.i.t.c.h for the next 16yrs.

@ MRbrownJAY,You think so?Once a killer will remains a killer.He just a crazy dude.

this guy is a wasted sperm!

Pathetic!

july123:

@ MRbrownJAY,You think so?Once a killer will remains a killer.He just a crazy dude.

of course he is a C R A Z Y dude, there is no doubts about that but he has not been deported so i guess he got his wish in staying in the UK, at least for the next 16yrs.

MRbrownJAY:

well i guess a lifetime in a UK jail seemed better than life in 9ja for this guy.

hey, at least he is going to have 3 warm meals a day, a warm bed to sleep in and become someone's b.i.t.c.h for the next 16yrs.

As sick as the whole incident may be,in reality uk jail is far better than average life style and habitations in places like lagos slums or any other nigerian city slums.

The guy should rightly be placed in a mental institution not a regular jail,he is crazy,anybody that can hurt a child is crazy,including parents and guardians that abuse children physically in the name of discipline like we commonly have in nigeria.

redsun:

As sick as the whole incident may be,in reality uk jail is far better than average life style and habitations in places like lagos slums or any other nigerian city slums.

The guy should rightly be placed in a mental institution not a regular jail,he is crazy,anybody that can hurt a child is crazy,including parents and guardians that abuse children physically in the name of discipline like we commonly have in nigeria.

3 square meals per day, warm room with TV/toilet, communal gym and play room, a job to earn just enough money to buy ciggies etc. . . . .  to some this aint jail, this is vacation(especially if you live in the streets of lagos)

thanks to the UK system, this loco might never be categorized as insane but probably only as a child murderer.

As sick as the whole incident may be,in reality uk jail is far better than average life style and habitations in places like lagos slums or any other nigerian city slums.

are you saying he Killed the baby to go Prison?

Nigerian Olusola Akinrele saw tiny Leeya as his ticket to avoiding deportation, a judge said yesterday.

The statement has no meaning! If he saw her as ticket to remain so why kill her?

On December 18 2006, the baby's father was alone upstairs with his daughter when he carried out the attack that killed her.

The judge said: 'The attack must have taken the form of either violent shaking or throwing the child down hard.

Where is the hard evidence beyond reasonable doubt he actually killed or intended to kill the baby?

When will Nigerians always ask hard questions and get answers?

Sadly, this is why Nigeria never progresses. Ask questions!

Have you never heared of 'shaken baby sydrome':

Shaken baby syndrome is the term that is used to describe a form of child abuse caused by vigorously shaking an infant, often in anger, to get a child to stop crying or whining. It usually occurs in children less than 1 year of age, and the violent shaking often results in severe and permanent brain injury, spinal-cord injuries, bleeding in the eyes (retinal hemorrhages), and even death.