The Crown Prosecution Service said the cruel and senseless killing was “almost impossible to comprehend”.
Sick parents jailed for beating and burning girl, 2, before mum shook her to death (Image: MEN Media / Greater Manchester Police)
Sick parents have been jailed for burning their 2-year-old daughter before her mother violently shook her to death in an act of “cruelty and sheer senselessness”. Morsal Mohammed Naim, 32, lied that her daughter Omra died after choking on a biscuit, but finally pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Manchester Crown Court last month.
Naim was sentenced to nine years on February 13 for manslaughter, while the child’s father, Firooz Wali Jan, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to six years and nine months for child cruelty. They had both previously pled guilty to child cruelty after using a lighter to burn Omra’s hand and neck and injuring her arm.
The court heard that baby Omra was born in Afghanistan and raised by her dad’s family, before being moved to live with her parents in Levenshulme in September 2023, where she was subject to unthinkable treatment. On a sickening day on November 30, 2023, just three months after Omra had moved into the Manchester home, emergency services were called to the house.
The first pictures have been shared of Omra who died aged just two after being abused (Image: Men Media)
Morsal Mohammed Naim has been jailed for manslaughter (Image: MEN Media / Greater Manchester Police)
A family member said that Omra, who was home with her mother, was choking and not breathing. Paramedics rushed to the scene and arrived within three minutes, but the door was left unanswered for seven minutes.
Once inside, they found Omra in cardiac arrest and unconscious, and they attempted to stabilise her before rushing her to Manchester Children’s Hospital.
But accounts didn’t add up. Paramedics didn’t find any signs of choking or anything blocking Omra’s airway, and CT and MRI scans confirmed that Omra had suffered a devastating brain injury, with multiple haemorrhages to her right eye and a healing rib fracture.
The two-year-old toddler never regained consciousness and tragically died at 6.48pm on February 9, 2024. Two paediatric pathologists determined that Omra had died as a result of head injuries.
Alan Richardson of the Crown Prosecution Service said: “Morsal Mohammed Naim not only shook her daughter to death, but then lied about what she had done.
“The strength of the evidence led Naim to admit causing her daughter’s death in the early stages of the trial. Our thoughts are of Omra – whose young life was cut mercilessly short – and all those affected by her untimely death.”
In Naim’s first account given to an officer at her home on November 30, she swore that Omra had been eating a biscuit, choked and suddenly fell down. The following day, she told hospital staff that the two-year-old had banged her head on a baby walker after falling and choking.
When Naim was interviewed by the police on December 7 and 8, 2023, her account changed again, saying that Omra had been spinning around before the biscuit got stuck. Then on December 29, Naim told a consultant paediatrician that she had shook Omra in an attempt to dislodge the biscuit.
Although Naim claimed in her various accounts that she had not inflicted the fatal injuries on her young daughter, the evidence from several experts was clear, reports the Crown Prosecution Service – the injuries could not have been caused by Omra choking or banging her head on the baby walker. It was more likely that she was violently shaken, resulting in head trauma.
Naim had also said that Omra’s burns and bruises may have been from when she lived in Afghanistan, or from playing with other children. The evil mother said that Omra would sometimes shake her head and hit the wall.
Philip Reade, Senior Investigating Officer for this case, said: “The last few months of her life must have been truly miserable, being hurt by those who were meant to care for and protect her.
Omra was so young, her parents should have been nurturing her, allowing her to grow into the child she would become. Instead, they completely neglected their moral duty to protect her.”
During the trial at Manchester Crown Court in January 2026, Naim accepted for the first time that she had inflicted the injuries on her daughter and pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
