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| Pair admit girl's manslaughter | Pair admit girl's manslaughter |
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| A mother and her partner accused of murdering her seven-year-old daughter by starving her to death have admitted her manslaughter. | A mother and her partner accused of murdering her seven-year-old daughter by starving her to death have admitted her manslaughter. |
| A charge of murder against Junaid Abuhamza, 31, was dropped after new evidence about his mental health was revealed at Birmingham Crown Court. | |
| The prosecution did not accept a plea of manslaughter by Angela Gordon, 35, and her trial for murder continues. | |
| The pair were accused of starving Khyra Ishaq to death in Birmingham in 2008. | |
| Khyra and five other children under their care and control had been denied food, the court has been told. | |
| Cold water | |
| Mr Abuhamza pleaded guilty to Khyra's manslaughter on Friday and the plea was accepted by the jury. | Mr Abuhamza pleaded guilty to Khyra's manslaughter on Friday and the plea was accepted by the jury. |
| He has told the court that he had been brutally abused himself as a child and witnessed his father beating his younger sister to death when he was aged five. | |
| He also told the court last week he had beaten Khyra with a cane, made her stand outside in the cold and threw cold water over her. | |
| When asked by the prosecution if he blamed himself for her death, he said: "Yes I do." | |
| The court has heard he suffered from bouts of schizophrenia and thought Khyra had a weird face because she was possessed by evil spirits. | |
| Khyra died on 17 May, 2008, after she was discovered at the family home in Handsworth, Birmingham, in a state of starvation. | |
| Abuhamza who has pleaded guilty to five cruelty charges at an earlier hearing, will be sentenced at the end of the trial. |