Katie Tidmarsh is convicted of killing one-year-old Ruby Thompson, who died from head injuries.
There were gasps in the public gallery as a jury found Katie Tidmarsh, now 39, guilty by majority verdict of causing catastrophic head injuries to Ruby Thompson in Leicester in August 2012.
Emergency services were called to an address in Pickwell Close, Leicester, and Ruby was taken to hospital where she died two days later.Leicester Crown Court heard Ruby suffered brain damage which led to a cardiac arrest. The trial previously heard Tidmarsh said baby Ruby was behaving in a "perfectly normally" before her "eyes rolled to the back of her head" and collapsed.
Tidmarsh added Ruby was "happy and smiling" and had drunk milk and eaten two yoghurts before playing with some packaging that arrived earlier in the day. But a number of medical experts called to give evidence said a number of injuries inflicted - which included a fractured skull and bleeding in her eyes - happened shortly before her collapse.'We walked into a wasteland' - BBC in Gaza with Israeli forces. VideoHezbollah warns of regional war if Gaza bombing goes on
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