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A British airline pilot was jailed for 20 years today after being found guilty of murdering his daughter after taking a cocktail of drink and drugs at a luxury hotel in Kazakhstan. 

Airbus captain Mohamed Barakat, 42, 'crushed the brains' and fractured the skull of one-year-old Sophia by banging her head against a wall, a court found.

A Kazakh judge rejected the London-born pilot's claim that he had fatally injured the child in an 'accident' while suffering an epileptic fit.  Wife Madina, 23, who initially told hotel staff that he killed their daughter before changing her testimony to say it was an accident, wept as the verdict was read out.