Toddler murder trial told of screams

The brother-in-law of Sadia Ahmed, who is accused of murdering her toddler daughter, told a jury he was wakened by very loud screaming.

Wacas Ahmed, 22, an accountancy graduate, told the High Court in Glasgow that he ran downstairs around 10am and saw his 14-year-old-month old niece Inaya Ahmed lying on the bed in his mother’s room.

He told prosecutor Paul Kearney: “She looked basically dead.”

The jury was told that his mother Noor Ahmed and his sister Shagufta Yasmin were standing beside the door to the room and Sadia Ahmed was standing beside the kitchen.

The court heard that Sadia Ahmed suffered from post natal depression after Inaya was born. The trial before judge Lord Matthews continues.