The Independent By Holly Evans
Zahra Ghulami was taken to hospital on May 27, 2020, and died two days later – her father Jan Gholami has been convicted of her killing.
A father took out his “bad temper” on his adopted two-year-old daughter, who was murdered after he bashed her head against a wall.
Jan Gholami, 33, has been found guilty of murdering Zahra Ghulami at the family’s Gravesend home in May 2020, just one year after the toddler left Afghanistan to come and live in the UK.
Jurors heard that Zahra had suffered a skull fracture caused by “significant impact with significant energy” and was pronounced dead in hospital two days later.
Gholami denied the accusations as well as denying allegations of older injuries before Zahra’s death, including that he banged her head against the wall and fractured her skull on an earlier occasion.
Prosecutor Sally Howes KC said: “Because this is what you do. You bang people’s heads against walls.
“Because you’ve done this before and Zahra had survived, you just walked away and went to Tesco.”
Despite Ghulami claiming that she had fallen down the stairs, he was convicted of murder and child cruelty at Maidstone Crown Court. His wife Roqia Ghulami, 32, was acquitted of murder but found guilty of cruelty of a person under 16 in a unanimous verdict.
Former farmer Gholami, originally from Afghanistan, told jurors he went to the supermarket that morning and was informed upon his arrival home that Zahra had fallen and was vomiting.
He claimed that he tried to call for an ambulance but because he does not speak English, he did not understand their questions and instead took a taxi to hospital.
He denied hurting his children, saying he loved them…
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