A mother who killed her four-month-old baby girl by violently shaking her has been jailed for 15 years.
28 year-old Melissa Wilband was found guilty of the manslaughter of Lexi Wilband, who collapsed at their home in Newent in Forest of Dean in April 2020.
The court heard her daughter died following bleeding on her brain.
Passing sentence, Mr Justice Saini told Wilband: “You killed Lexi by violently shaking her at the family home in Newent.
“Lexi was killed by you when the country was in the first national COVID-19 lockdown.”
Wilband’s former partner, Jack Wheeler, 31, was acquitted of causing or allowing Lexi’s death. Charges of manslaughter against him were withdrawn during the trial after prosecutors offered no evidence.