A long-serving magistrate has been jailed for four and a half years after being convicted of killing his partner's two-year-old daughter.
Rashpal Chana, who has served as a JP for almost 20 years, and his ex-girlfriend, Eva Logina, were both convicted of the manslaughter of Kristiana Logina by a jury at Nottingham Crown Court.
Mrs Justice Dobbs, who heard that the toddler died of septic shock after suffering severe burns in a scalding hot shower at her Birmingham home, jailed Eva Logina for six years.
A month-long trial heard that Chana, who showed little emotion as sentence was passed, and Logina both failed to summon medical assistance for Kristiana, who died around 12 days after being scalded.
Chana, who was not present when the scalding occurred, was charged with manslaughter by omission after Kristiana died at Birmingham Children's Hospital in February last year.
The 49-year-old has also worked in the past as a teacher and an academic, receiving the Queen's Award for services to the science community while seconded to Keele University in Staffordshire.
Sentencing Chana, who was living with Logina at a house in Tennal Road, Harborne, Birmingham, at the time of the death, Mrs Justice Dobbs said his actions appeared to have been a "gross aberration".
"It seems quite clear that you were in a relationship by that time that you didn't want to be in," the judge said.
Although Mrs Justice Dobbs accepted that there was no evidence that the initial injuries were caused deliberately, she said Kristiana's mother had then acted selfishly because she feared her daughter may be taken away if she sought medical help.
The judge told Logina: "It's always a tragedy when a young life is cut short. One cannot escape the fact that the underlying reason for your not seeking medical help was a selfish one."