Nadia Kalinowska: Minimum 22-year term for stepdad who killed girl

The stepfather of Nadia Zofia Kalinowska indispensable service astatine slightest 22 years successful situation for her murder.

The five-year-old miss died aft being recovered injured astatine her household location with much than 70 injuries including a fractured skull.

Abdul Wahab, 35, pleaded blameworthy successful tribunal successful January and was fixed an automatic beingness sentence.

Nadia's parent Aleksandra Wahab, who pleaded blameworthy to allowing the decease of a child, was sentenced to 11 years.

The 29-year-old had besides pleaded blameworthy to allowing a kid to endure superior carnal harm.

She volition service fractional her condemnation successful situation and fractional connected licence.

At Belfast Crown Court, Mr Justice O'Hara said what Abudl Wahab had done to Nadia was "brutal, merciless and outrageous" and the 22-year minimum tariff reflected the "sustained quality of brutality" helium had inflicted connected her.

In January, a tribunal had been told the schoolgirl was tortured and killed successful her location successful Fernagh Drive successful Newtownabbey and details of the injuries inflicted connected Nadia were given.

As good arsenic suffering a skull fracture and lacerated liver which caused her death, Nadia had sustained fractures and re-fractures to her ribs, a fractured collarbone, a fractured pelvis and an wounded to her bowel.

The injuries were inflicted implicit galore months.

At the clip she died she besides had aboveground injuries including bruising and abrasions and her teeth were decayed and rotten.

Abdul Wahab had claimed she was clumsy and had fallen down the stairs connected the nighttime she died.

The tribunal was told the young lad of Aleksandra and Abdul Wahab was taken to aesculapian appointments regularly for "relatively insignificant matters" successful stark opposition to however Nadia was treated.

Nadia often attended schoolhouse successful what was described arsenic "traditional Muslim dress" which covered up her injuries.

As good arsenic admitting murder, Abdul Wahab pleaded blameworthy to 2 charges of grievous bodily harm with intent 24 hours earlier the child's decease and connected different occasions betwixt July and December 2019.

Speaking aft the sentencing, Public Prosecution Service adjunct manager Ciaran McQuillan said it was a profoundly distressing case.

"Every execution is abhorrent, but this was an particularly sickening and brutal execution of a young child," helium added.