‘The noise will haunt me forever’: Mum’s heart-breaking tribute as dog breeder convicted of murdering toddler

A grieving mother has described how the noise her 16-month-old daughter made on the last day of her life “will haunt her forever”.

Little Nusayba Umar was beaten by her mum’s “controlling and violent boyfriend” Syed Kamran Haider, and died in hospital four days later.

On Monday, twisted Haider, 40, of Colinton Road, Goodmayes, was found guilty of murder and child cruelty at the Old Bailey. He will be sentenced on Wednesday.

The dog breeder had met Nusayba’s mum Asiyah Amazir on a dating site just five weeks before the attack.

They moved in together where Ms Amazir suffered domestic violence at the hands of Haider, police said, while he also injured Nusayba shortly before her death.

In court, Ms Amazir gave a heart-breaking victim impact statement detailing her grief at her daughter’s death.

She said: “Nusayba was subjected to the most horrible experiences at the hands of this man towards the end of her life.

“I will never forget the events that led to her death for as long as I live.

“I vividly remember the things she suffered and that noise she made on the last day of her life will haunt me forever.”

Ms Amazir explained how she was devastated that she would never get see all the benign things parents take for granted, such as putting “her in a pretty dress” or buying “her a toy that I know she wants”.

“There are also the other more obvious effects of this awful crime committed against my daughter,” she explained.

“Things like I will never get to see her grow up, hear her first full sentence, see her first day at school, her first tooth loss, her first proper tantrum and all of the other beautiful milestones that a mother witnesses throughout her children’s lives.

“I will never get to hold her again or kiss her tiny hands, tickle her, put her in a pretty dress or buy her a toy that I know she wants, all of the most benign and underrated things that most take for granted as parents.

“These have been taken from me and cannot be given back.

“Something as simple as changing her nappy or doing her laundry is now a heart breaking memory for me and these are just some of the life-long impacts of this crime that I’m able to verbalise.

“There are a million more things I am not able to think of words for, to be able to really explain the immediate and life-long impacts of my daughter being murdered, not just for me but also for the rest of her family and we will have to live with these things for the rest of our lives.”

On September 13 2019, Ms Amazir was at the Goodmayes home with Haider and her daugher, when she heard Nusayba crying upstairs.

She heard the sound of a slap after Haider had told Nusayba to “shh” and he then brought her downstairs.

Ms Amazir cared for her daughter and grew increasingly concerned for her welfare.

She left the property and went to a bus stop, where she called an ambulance, and Nusayba was rushed to hospital.

She was treated before being transferred to a specialist hospital in central London.

Nusayba remained critically ill until she died in hospital at 6pm on September 17 2019.

A post-mortem examination held days later gave the cause of death as a traumatic head injury.

Police say that what happened on September 13 has never been fully established, but “it is beyond doubt that the injuries inflicted on her [Nusayba] could not have been accidental and were caused by Haider”.