A father in the UK who bit, beat, punched and shook his baby daughter has been jailed for at least 22 years.

Aurimas Medvedevas (23) from Lithuania was sentenced at the Old Bailey in London for killing two-month-old Aukse.

It happened on September 5th last year, the day Aukse's mother went back to work for the first time since giving birth.

Ms Urbikaite (22) returned to their Peterborough home that night to find her daughter dead in a cot.

Medvedevas, of Clifton Avenue in Peterborough, denied murder but on the third day of his Old Bailey trial he changed his plea to guilty in light of the overwhelming evidence against him.

Jailing him, judge Timothy Pontius said the brutality of the attack on a defenceless baby almost defied belief and the bite marks on her head were "particularly shocking".

He said the baby's hours of suffering before her eventual death "demonstrated a callousness that is as incredible as it is inhuman."

"The murder of any human being is always a tragedy, the murder of a defenceless child of any age, the more so."

"The murder of a helpless infant only a few weeks old in circumstances of brutality which almost defy belief is an appalling crime beyond comprehension."

"The responsibility - his alone - for so horrific a crime will, I imagine, weigh heavily upon his conscience for the rest of his life. So it should."