A British Pakistani man is likely to face life imprisonment over claims that he allegedly told his former mistress to punish a crying baby by dunking her into water while he watched the child drown on the Internet.
Ammaz Qureshi, who is being extradited to Norway, is accused of instructing Yasmin Chaudhry to put her child in the bucket as a punishment after the one-year-old interrupted their conversation on Skype by crying.
When Yasmin, in Norway, realised the child, Hunaina, wasn’t breathing, she called for help and told doctors that the baby fell into the water by accident.
The girl was unconscious when Norwegian paramedics arrived and was pronounced dead the next day, in October 2010, The Daily Times reports.
Yasmin was initially arrested on suspicion of negligence because of inconsistencies in the stories she gave to police and the paramedics, but is now facing a preliminary charge of murder.
Norwegian police flew to the UK to question Qureshi in December after he was blamed for the death.
He has now been arrested on charges of unlawful killing and is understood to have admitted watching the killing but denies giving any instructions.