A couple has been jailed for life in Hong Kong over what a judge called the “completely disgraceful” abuse and murder of their newborn son six years ago.
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The High Court on Wednesday sentenced Hong Kong residents Imran Hossain, 32, and Farzana Akter, 29, over the father and mother’s mistreatment and killing of their seven-week-old baby, Iyman Hossain, in 2019.
A day earlier, a seven-member jury returned a unanimous verdict to convict the pair of murder and child cruelty in a case that hinged on circumstantial evidence due to the absence of an eyewitness.
The boy died six days after he lost consciousness in the family’s subdivided flat in Sham Shui Po on August 24, 2019.
The court heard that Iyman, the second of the couple’s three children, was growing healthily, according to his last medical check-up at a clinic on August 8, but stopped gaining weight and sustained multiple injuries to his head and body before he was hospitalised.
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Iyman was diagnosed with bleeding under the skull, brain damage, and multiple thigh and rib fractures.