A shocking video appeared about a bewildered woman rushing her immobile 1-year-old daughter into the lobby of a five-star hotel in Kazakhstan after she was allegedly hit by her father, a British pilot, according to a report.
Madina, 23, is calling for help from staff at Almaty’s InterContinental Hotel while placing Sophia at the reception desk on Oct. 24, 2019, East2West News reported.
The frantic Kazakh woman falls to the ground and is helped by a security officer calling for an ambulance. She is then seen carrying the child on a couch before falling back into anguish, as shown by the heartbreaking video.
“He killed my son! He hit her! Madina shouted, referring to her husband, Mohamed Barakat, 41, captain of the Airbus A330 of a Hong Kong Airlines subsidiary, according to evidence provided by hotel workers.
The woman later dismissed an earlier statement and said, “I don’t think my husband killed our daughter because there are no motives or motives,” the media reported.
The father, tried and found not guilty, told the court the girl died in an “accident” in the hotel room after suffering an “seizure” of epilepsy, according to the newspaper.
Barakat said Hong Kong and Malaysian doctors involved in his medical checks were aware that he had suffered from epilepsy for a long time, although the condition is often a reason why he is not granted a pilot’s license.
He told Judge Bakhytkhan Bakirbayev, who questioned him about Sophia’s “multiple impacts”, that she suffered from an epileptic seizure, to which she had been prone since after a car accident in London around 1996-97.
“I had a seizure. I don’t remember anything that happened to Sophia, “he told the judge. “He’s asking me to give you information while I was in a crisis but I can’t give you any.”
Barakat added that there was “absolutely no possibility that he would ever hurt a single hair on his head. Conscious or unconscious, I would never hurt my own daughter. ”
He also denied being drunk after spending a night out or taking “illegal substances” after evidence suggested he may have been drugged between flights to Almaty.
Madina’s testimony suggested that her husband had a quantity of cannabis in the hotel room before the tragedy – although investigators found no evidence – and that he had used cocaine.
The pilot also alleged that a senior investigator attempted to bribe him, demanding $ 60,000 to “reclassify the case,” changing the murder charge to cause the child’s accidental death, East2West reported.
In the new footage shown in court, Barakat is also seen taking Sophia to the hotel next to Madina the day before. The video ends with a doctor running towards the girl, who was pronounced dead shortly after.
Receptionist Marzhan Ilyas reminded the girl of “always smiling” before her violent death.
Barakat, who previously worked as a pilot for the Malaysian low-cost airline AirAsia, faces 20 years in prison if convicted of murder.
Sources in Kazakhstan have denied their recent claim in court that they had gone on hunger strike.
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