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| A father has been found guilty of shaking his eight-month-old baby daughter to death. | A father has been found guilty of shaking his eight-month-old baby daughter to death. |
| A jury at the High Court in Glasgow found Faisal Younas guilty of culpable homicide at his home in Pollokshields, Glasgow, in September 2005. | |
| Eight-month-old Alishba, who was born on 25 December 2004, suffered head and neck injuries. She died at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow. | Eight-month-old Alishba, who was born on 25 December 2004, suffered head and neck injuries. She died at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow. |
| Younas, 35, who was refused bail, will be sentenced next month. | |
| He was initially charged with murder following the assault. | |
| However, last week the Crown withdrew the charge and asked the jury to find him guilty of culpable homicide. | |
| Expert witness | |
| Alishba died from a brain injury two days after she was admitted to hospital. | |
| A videoed interview with a four-year-old boy, who claimed that Younas had assaulted Alishba when he was in the room, was shown by the Crown during the nine-week trial. | |
| However, a US expert witness for the defence branded the evidence of prosecution witnesses "false and misleading". | |
| Younas, who was a property developer in Pakistan before he came to Scotland with his wife Bano in 2001, claimed that he found his baby daughter choking in her car chair. | |
| He said he tried to revive her before driving to the doctor's surgery a few minutes away. | |
| Following the guilty verdict the judge, Lord Hardie, called for reports before sentencing. |