A father bit his baby daughter in the forehead and killed her with repeated blows, a UK court has heard.

Lithuanian Aurimas Medvedevas (23) is charged with murdering two-month-old Aukse at their house in the English city of Peterborough while her mother was at work.

Agency worker Dzesika Urbikaite (22) returned home to find her baby dead in a cot. Aukse had bruises and abrasions on her body and two bite marks on her head.

Medvedevas, who is on trial at the Old Bailey in London, claims she died accidentally by falling out of bed.

Prosecutor Karim Khalil QC said the cause of death was a head injury, although there were "signs of numerous other inflicted injuries too".

The court heard that one of the bite marks matched the defendant's teeth imprint. Significant internal injuries included a deep cut to the liver and five rib fractures.

Bleeding on the brain and eyes indicated that Aukse had been shaken.

On his arrest, Medvedevas admitted being in sole care when his daughter died on September 5th last year, but he told police she fell out of bed and hit her head while he was in a deep sleep beside her.

However, when his trial started in May the defendant admitted he had shaken Aukse and thrown her on the bed. From there she fell to the floor, he claimed.

Mr Khalil QC told jurors that Medvedevas still had not accounted for all the injuries, and had provided no explanation for the bite marks.

The prosecutor said: "For reasons known only to him but which may well be rooted in the pressures of home life and his own inability to cope with the change in his circumstances, he took hold of his own baby, he bit her on the head, he struck her repeatedly and he shook her hard.

"As a result of all that she died, not immediately, but a few hours later. As he committed those acts of violence against baby Aukse he must have intended to kill her or cause her really serious harm. That is murder."

Medvedevas, of Clifton Avenue, Peterborough, denies murder. The trial continues.