A judge has sentenced a “devious” mother who stamped her toddler to death to 24 years in prison.
Kathryn Smith, 23, was jailed for life on Monday following her conviction for murder after the savage attack on 21-month-old Ayeeshia Jane Smith at the family home in Staffordshire on May 1 2014.
Mrs Justice Geraldine Andrews, sentencing a weeping Smith at Birmingham Crown Court, said: “You are a devious, manipulative, selfish, young woman who would stop at nothing to get your own way.
“To that end you were prepared to tell lie after lie.”
“Ayeeshia was a particularly vulnerable victim, thin and slight of frame, deserving of protection and under the protection of social services for the whole of her short life.”