A father who bit, beat, punched and shook his small baby daughter has been jailed for at least 22 years.
Aurimas Medvedevas, a 23-year-old from Lithuania, was sentenced at the Old Bailey for killing two-month-old Aukse.
It happened on September 5 last year, the day Aukse's mother - agency worker Dzesika Urbikaite - went back to work for the first time since giving birth.
Ms Urbikaite, 22, returned to their Peterborough home that night to find her daughter dead in her cot. She wept in court as Medvedevas was sentenced.
Medvedevas, of Clifton Avenue, Peterborough, had denied murder.
But on the third day of his trial he changed his plea to guilty in light of the overwhelming evidence against him.
Judge Timothy Pontius said the brutality of the attack on a defenceless baby almost defied belief.
He described the bite marks on her head as "particularly shocking".
The judge said the baby's hours of suffering before her eventual death "demonstrated a callousness that is as incredible as it is inhuman".
"The murder of any human being is always a tragedy, the murder of a defenceless child of any age, the more so," he said.
"The murder of a helpless infant only a few weeks old in circumstances of brutality which almost defy belief is an appalling crime beyond comprehension.
"The responsibility - his alone - for so horrific a crime will, I imagine, weigh heavily upon his conscience for the rest of his life. So it should."
Defence lawyer Sallie Bennett-Jenkins QC said Medvedevas had shown "heartfelt" remorse for what he had done to his baby.
"The horror of having realised that his child was badly hurt will never leave this young man. What he does recall is holding her," she said.
"He recalls she died in his arms and afterwards he was terrified as to the hurt he had inflicted on her and his girlfriend who he loved very much. He was in a state of utter terror and hurt."
She said that at the time of the murder Medvedevas was struggling to find work and financial "matters were really at quite a desperate state".
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