Mum told cops tot ‘choked’
A MOTHER accused of murdering her toddler daughter told a police officer that the child choked on a piece of white bread, a court heard yesterday.
Sadia Ahmed, 28, spoke to Detective Constable Helen Morrow about 14-month-old Inaya.
The statement was taken two-and-a-half hours after Inaya was rushed to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.
Ahmed told Morrow that Inaya was sitting on her lap when she gave her a piece of bread at 9.45am that day.
She said: “I fed her a small piece of bread with butter. She had taken it in her mouth. She began to cough.”
The accused said she patted Inaya on the back several times “to try and stop her coughing”.
She added: “It did not work. I screamed. I tried to give her water, but she wouldn’t take it. I called to my mother-in-law and said Inaya was coughing and I didn’t know what to do.
“My mother-in-law also tapped Inaya on the back to try to get the bread out. It didn’t work.”
Ahmed denies murdering Inaya by smothering her with a pillow at their home in Drumchapel, Glasgow on April 17 last year.
The child’s life support machine was switched off three days later.
Ahmed was yesterday cleared of attempting to pervert the course of justice by presenting a knife at her niece Suha Ahmed, 18, and threatening to kill her unless she said Inaya had choked.
She was also acquitted of assaulting her daughter by force-feeding her bottles and syringes of milk from her birth until April 16 last year.
The trial continues. A GANG blasted a man in the buttocks and back with a shotgun at a chicken farm.
Police believe it was a targeted attack and they are treating it as attempted murder.
The 41-year-old victim was working on a car at Crosslee Farm when he was hit.
It is believed he was shot from behind with buckshot from a low-calibre shotgun.
He was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, where medics described his condition as stable.
The attempted murder happened at the farm, near Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, at about 2.30pm on Tuesday.
Fireworks and calor gas are also sold at the farm.
Eddie Lovett, who owns the site, which includes a garage and fireworks shop, said on Facebook yesterday: “Poultry farm, gas and fireworks are closed due to unforeseen circumstances. Will reopen as soon as possible.
“Family and staff are OK and not connected to yesterday’s event on the property.”
A neighbour said: “We had been out and came back to see this road cordoned off. There were loads of police. It was terrifying and the last thing you expect to see in such a rural area.”
Detective Chief Inspector Fil Capaldi said: “The motive for this attack is not clear. However, we do believe the victim was the intended target.”
A dark green saloon type car, occupied by three or four men, was seen in the area of the farm and made off immediately after the shooting.
Officers have been checking CCTV footage in surrounding areas.
Capaldi added: “While the farm is in a rural location, there were several people visiting for various reasons throughout the morning and afternoon.
“I am appealing to anyone who was there and who may have seen the car or has any information that could assist our inquiries to get in touch.”
Crosslee was at the centre of a row two years ago after the farmer accused police of harassing him over cannabis-growing allegations.
Dozens of officers swooped on Lovett’s farm and spent several hours searching his premises with sniffer dogs.
It was the second raid on the premises in 12 months and the third in three years.
The farmer said he was being unfairly targeted by police.
He has sheds that need to be kept at high temperatures to hatch eggs in incubators.
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