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Liam Culverhouse jailed over Khloe Abrams death | |
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A former soldier has been jailed for six years over the death of his 19-month-old daughter in Northampton. | |
Liam Culverhouse, 25, was sentenced at Northampton Crown Court after admitting causing or allowing the death of Khloe Abrams. | |
He once played dead to survive an attack in Afghanistan in 2009, which left five of his colleagues dead. | He once played dead to survive an attack in Afghanistan in 2009, which left five of his colleagues dead. |
His daughter died in a hospice in November 2012 after being assaulted. | |
The court heard Khloe was admitted to hospital in May 2011, a few months after Culverhouse was medically discharged from the Army. | |
She spent more than a year in hospital and was being cared for in a hospice before dying of pneumonia, which was brought on by the severe injuries she suffered when she was seven weeks old. | |
Culverhouse suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after being blinded in one eye in an attack in Helmand province on 3 November 2009. | |
Then a lance corporal, he was shot in the face, arms and legs with an AK-47 machine gun at checkpoint Blue 25. | |
Five other British soldiers were shot dead, six were injured and two Afghan policeman were wounded. |