A woman has been found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm but cleared of attempted murder after throwing her baby down a rubbish chute.
Jaymin Abdulrahman, 25, wrapped her six-week-old daughter in material and dropped her more than 40ft (12m) down a chute at a block of flats in Wolverhampton in September 2012.
The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was discovered with serious head injuries, including a fractured skull, in a bin by her father and taken to Birmingham Children's Hospital.
Birmingham Crown Court had heard how the baby would have taken 2.2 seconds to fall down the chute, reaching a maximum speed on 29 mph, before hitting a metal plate designed to deflect rubbish into a bin.
Abdulrahman was also cleared of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. She had denied all three charges.
Her defence barrister told the jury that she had been suffering from a form of postnatal depression known as postpartum psychosis, which prevented her from forming an intent to kill or cause serious injury to her daughter.
Abdulrahman initially told police that her child had been kidnapped by strangers.
Prosecutors alleged that the Iraqi national deliberately placed her daughter into the chute with the intention of killing her.
But Abdulrahman, who accepted that she put her baby into the chute, told the jury she had not planned the incident and had "lost control of her thoughts".
The jury heard that she was "tired, sad and exhausted" in the week after her daughter's birth and unaware of why she was crying.
Rachel Brand QC, defending Abdulrahman, described her a competent and loving mother.
Speaking through a Kurdish interpreter, Abdulrahman told the court she was in tears while cleaning her bathroom shortly before placing the baby in the chute.
She told jurors: "I was extremely sad. I went to the living room, I put the baby in a rubbish bag and I threw her away.
"After I had done so, I just couldn't believe what I had just done, and I couldn't understand why I did it. I was in shock."
Answering questions from Ms Brand, Abdulrahman added that she had not "planned" to do what she did and had not thought about what she was going to do.
"Even now as I am speaking to you, I am still in a state of disbelief of what I have done. I have lost control of my thoughts when I did so.
"I can't tell whether I was crying at the time or not, but I have done this. I wasn't aware of what I was doing.
"If I thought that by doing so I would do some harm to the baby, I wouldn't have done it."
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