Father of tragic schoolgirl Shay Kang is a convicted killer

Hardi Hamad was jailed in July the killing of father-of-two Ali Salih Abdalaah in Ladywood, Birmingham. He helped beat him to death outside his home in October 22

Hamad, 35, admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility, the same charge Shay's mother Jaskirat Kaur, 33, was sentenced to an indefinite stay in a secure mental health unit last week.

Hamad blamed his mental health problems on a traumatic brain injury he sustained in a car crash in 2014 which affected his cognitive ability. 

The parents lived together when Shay was born but split up when she was a child. Shay lived with Kaur in Rowley Regis and when she was nine-years-old her mother stopped her attending Brickhouse Primary School. 

Paranoid schizophrenic Kaur became paranoid and delusional and believed her daughter would be kidnapped on the school run.

Shay's godmother Kayleigh Colclough told Wolverhampton Crown Court she led Hamad and an expectant Kaur live at her home. However, due to their toxic relationship she told Hamad he had to leave the property.

She said: "There were lots of arguments between the two so I asked the father to leave. Jaskirat and Kaur lived with me. She was aggressive."

The pair lost touch after Kaur moved to Robin Close in Rowley Regis.

Brickhouse Primary School alerted West Midlands Police and Sandwell social services who visited the property and commented on Kaur's distressed state of mind .However, Shay was still living with her mum when she was stabbed to death in March this year. Due to Shay's father and mother being in custody Brickhouse Primary School organised her funeral this September. 

Kaur told detectives: “I stabbed her, not to cause pain, but to end it. I tried to put my hand over her mouth and nose so she could not scream or shout. I woke her up just after midnight and decided to kill her. I was going to suffocate her but could not go through with it. 

"So I stabbed her in the chest, she said ‘ow, I hate you’. She did not scream. She ended up going on her side." 

She added: "I watched her as she looked back at me. So I did it again. She was struggling to breathe. I felt bad. So I put the pillow over her head and put my weight on it. After the last stab she has gone.

“They can’t claim her, they can’t adopt her, they can’t take her. No matter what I say it will not make sense, but to me it does. You are classing it as murder but for me it is a relief."