Posing on bender, video shows evil mum who left baby girl home alone to starve to death for six-day birthday celebration

POSING for the camera successful a agleam orangish dress, Verphy Kudi looked similar immoderate teen celebrating her 18th birthday.

But down her smile, the dancing teen was hiding a sinister concealed - portion she enjoyed a six-day bender, her babe girl Asiah was left astatine location unsocial to die.

The 20-month-old was truthful bare and dehydrated that she tragically did not adjacent person the "strength to cry".

She sadly starved to decease astatine location successful Brighton conscionable weeks earlier Christmas successful 2019.

In a further insult to her daughter's memory, Kudi spun a web of lies claiming she had been caring for Asiah each time arsenic she was unwell.

But her deceit was exposed erstwhile chilling CCTV revealed she had gone partying portion Asiah went done "almost unimaginable suffering".

Now, we revisit the shocking lawsuit that horrified the nation.

Asiah's ordeal began connected December 5, 2019, erstwhile Kudi was captured connected CCTV leaving the babe unsocial successful her flat.

The mum archetypal headed for meal with her fellow successful Fulham, South West London, earlier aboriginal gathering up with immoderate pals.

Over the people of six days, she attended parties successful London, Coventry and Solihull - each portion claiming her mum was looking aft Asiah.

Kudi adjacent broke down connected 1 of the days and said she was missing the tot and was "not used" to being distant from her.

On December 8 - 3 days aft leaving her girl - those worries appeared to person vanished arsenic she was filmed successful a nightclub.

Wearing a choky orangish formal with her hair pulled into a ponytail, Kudi could beryllium seen dancing arsenic euphony blared successful the background.

Further footage showed the mum looking worse for deterioration arsenic she yet returned location connected December 11.

But adjacent past Kudi failed to prevention her girl and waited 3 hours earlier she yet called 999, saying: "Help, my babe is not waking up."

Paramedics discovered Asiah acold and unresponsive with signs of rigor mortis already mounting in.

The babe was rushed to Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital successful Brighton but was tragically declared dormant connected arrival.

The "hysterical" mum claimed Asiah had been unwell each time and fell dormant aft eating a banana and drinking immoderate milk.

Kudi past said she ne'er woke up again.

But the mum changed her communicative erstwhile police showed her CCTV that confirmed she near the level unsocial connected December 5 and didn't instrumentality until six days later.

She told them: “I’m heartbroken, my bosom hurts truthful overmuch I don’t cognize however to breathe. I’m trying truthful hard to beryllium strong.”

A post-mortem exam recovered babe Asiah was dehydrated and starved earlier she died from influenza and neglect.

It aboriginal emerged that astatine the clip of her death, the small miss and her mum were surviving successful supported lodging for young families tally by the YMCA connected behalf of Brighton and Hove City Council.

Staff astatine the portion had called constabulary aft reviewing CCTV footage pursuing the baby's death.

Tragically, Asiah did not person a societal idiosyncratic adjacent though Kudi had repeatedly gone missing since the property of 14 and had been the taxable of a fig of constabulary appeals.

The babe had besides been near unsocial 11 times successful 2 months and heartbreakingly did not adjacent outcry arsenic she knew it was pointless.

A safeguarding reappraisal was launched by Brighton and Hove Safeguarding Children Partnership (BHSCP) pursuing the horror.

But a coroner ruled Asiah's decease "could not person been predicted".

Kudi was jailed for 9 years successful August 2021 aft pleading blameworthy to manslaughter.

She sobbed arsenic she was told she volition service two-thirds of her condemnation successful prison earlier being released connected licence.

The justice slammed "deceitful and manipulative" Kudi for choosing to "prioritise your desires implicit the needs of your child".

Sentencing, Judge Christine Laing added: “Asiah was unsocial successful that level for six days, little 2 hours, incapable to bash thing to gully attraction to her plight.

“It’s a peculiarly distressing facet of this lawsuit that successful the opinion of Dr Cleghorn, it’s improbable that Asiah would person cried for immoderate magnitude of clip due to the fact that she had already learnt that successful galore occasions determination was improbable to beryllium a response.

“And erstwhile her suffering became excessively great, she would not person had the spot to cry.”