A mother whose partner killed their weeks old baby has criticised his jail sentence and said she wishes she had never met him.
Thomas Haining shook 23-day-old Mikayla causing "catastrophic" brain injuries, leaving her in a coma with a fractured skull and broken ribs.
Originally charged with murder, he was jailed for eight years at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday after prosecutors accepted his guilty plea to the lesser charge of culpable homicide.
Mikayla's mother Shannon Davies told STV: "I'm glad it's over and he's getting a punishment, but then eight years is not long enough.
"Obviously he took Mikayla away and he got eight years, but he will be like 29, 30, when he's out, it's nothing really.
"I don't think there's anything that'll make up for what he's done."
Shannon said she did not suspect him at the time, adding: "I don't know how people can do it, especially to your own.
"You're meant to love and care for that child. I wish I'd never laid eyes on him."
Shannon was asleep upstairs in their Inverness home on June 7, 2017, when Haining stayed up to look after Mikayla, who had been crying more than usual and suffering from diarrhoea.
He claimed to have taken Mikayla out of her Moses basket to feed her in the early hours of June 8, after which he said she became sleepy and unresponsive.
Phone records showed Haining had made four internet searches during this time, trying to find out information about babies being in a coma and querying: "What happens if a newborn baby is shake (sic) hard?"
When the emergency services were called Mikayla was taken to hospital where she had a cardiac arrest as a result of her head injuries.
She was taken off life support later that afternoon and died in her mother's arms.
