Tragic schoolgirl Shay Kang’s father was locked up for killing man 4 months after the 10-year-old was stabbed to loss of life by her mom
Killer mother Jaskirat Kaur conceived her tragic daughter with a man who was also later jailed for taking a life, the Mail can reveal.
Little Shay Kang is thought never to have met her father before dying at her mother’s hands at their Rowley Regis home in March.
Kaur, 33, was sentenced to an indefinite stay at a secure mental health unit on Friday after a court heard the paranoid schizophrenic stabbed Shay to death after believing she was being targeted by ‘lasers and technology’, a court heard.
Just month’s after the child’s death, her father Hardi Hamad and a co-defendant were jailed over the killing of father-of-two Ali Salih Abdalaah in nearby Ladywood, Birmingham.
Like Kaur, Hamad, 35, admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility – in his case due to a traumatic brain injury he sustained in a car crash in 2014 which affected his cognitive ability.
Killer mother Jaskirat Kaur conceived her tragic daughter, Shay Kang, with a man who was also later jailed for taking a life, the Mail can reveal
The tragic schoolgirl’s father Hardi Hamad, pictured, was jailed in July
The tragic child’s godmother, Kayleigh Colclough, pictured with Shay, told the Mail that the couple’s relationship was ‘toxic’ and the child ‘never stood a chance in life’
Ms Colclough said Kaur always seemed to lack a maternal instinct – and ‘couldn’t stand anybody else having a good relationship’ with Shay
Just months after the little girl’s death, her father Hardi Hamad and a co-defendant were jailed over the killing of father-of-two Ali Salih Abdalaah in nearby Ladywood, Birmingham
He was sentenced to 11 years with a five-year extended licence period in July.
With both Shay’s parents in custody, it fell to her school, Brickhouse Primary in Rowley Regis, to organise the child’s funeral.
A horse-drawn carriage led the procession last month after £8,875 was raised for the service.
It is thought Hamad suffered the brain injury just a matter of months after separating with Kaur when she was in the early stages of her pregnancy with Shay.
The tragic child’s godmother, Kayleigh Colclough, told the Mail how she met Kaur through Hamad – who she knew through a shop owned by his father – and recalled how he had gushed about being ‘in love’ with Kaur.
Ms Colclough, 37, from Smethwick, West Midlands, said she met Hamad when his father used to run an off-licence near her home.
‘He would help me with my bags’, she said.
‘One day he told me he had met a woman and he brought her around to introduce her to me. It was Kaur.’
Ms Colclough described the couple’s relationship as ‘toxic’. After they split, Kaur told her they had separated in part because the man’s Muslim family wouldn’t accept him being in a relationship with a Sikh woman.
Commenting on Shay’s parents, Ms Colclough added that the child ‘never stood a chance in life’.
Birmingham Crown Court heard Hamad and co-defendant Dale Berry-Parkes, 31, were acting as pimps for a sex worker and attacked 36-year-old Mr Abdalaah, a father-of-two, at his flat after she accused him of raping her.
Shay Kang was found dead at a home in Rowley Regis in the West Midlands on March 4
Shay had been seen playing with children in the cul-de-sac hours before police were called
Shay’s paternal grandfather, Safeen Hamad, 64, confirmed the stormy nature of his son’s relationship with Kaur, saying that when the couple separated: ‘My son tried to see his daughter but she (Kaur) fought with him.’
The retired shopkeeper, from Aston, Birmingham, added: ‘My son told me she rang the police to stop him seeing his daughter.
‘The trouble with this country is they believe the woman, not the man. It’s terrible, what she has done to a child – my granddaughter.’
Mr Hamad said his son, who is serving his sentence at Stoke Heath prison near Market Drayton, Shropshire, was informed of what happened to Shay.
He added: ‘I only saw this lady (Kaur) one time. I don’t know her. When she was pregnant, they separated. She didn’t let my son see his daughter.’
After Kaur and Hamad separated, Ms Colclough took pregnant Kaur in and Kaur and Shay lived with her until the child was five.
Ms Colclough and a second former friend told MailOnline Kaur was a feckless parent who regularly left the child home alone to visit a convenience store around the corner from her home.
Ms Colclough said Kaur always seemed to lack a maternal instinct – and ‘couldn’t stand anybody else having a good relationship’ with Shay.
She said the killer mother was ‘over-physical’ and would ‘scream and shout’ at her daughter.
The two former friends each claimed Kaur, who went by the name Jasmine Kang and was nicknamed ‘Jas’, also stole prescription drugs or cash off them.
Ms Colclough recalled how the child suffered a second-degree burn while in Kaur’s care.
When she later quizzed the child about how it happened, Ms Colclough was told: ‘Mummy did it with fire’.
But when Ms Colclough questioned Kaur about Shay’s injury, the killer claimed her daughter had knocked a cup of coffee out of her hands and accidentally scolded herself.
Kaur (pictured) called 999 after stabbing her daughter in the chest and told West Midlands Police: ‘My kid is dead’
A photograph of Shay clutching a certificate was placed among the floral and cuddly tributes outside her home in Rowley Regis
The court heard Shay had been withdrawn from school for nine months up until September 2023 and social workers had identified her as a ‘child in need’
She said: ‘I was on holiday when it happened and Jas called me to tell me what had happened. The way she was talking I thought it was something pretty minor.
‘Then she sent me a picture and the burn was horrendous – I had to tell her to take Shay to hospital, she didn’t seem that bothered.
‘I found out it took her a day to take her to hospital’
Kaur told her circle of friends in the West Midlands that she had grown up in Leicester but had been shunned by her family when she refused to go through with an arranged marriage.
After moving west, she claimed to have worked as a cleaner or a school dinner lady.
Ms Colclough recalled that on one occasion when Shay was a toddler, Kaur flew into a rage and attempted to push her off her balcony as she held the child on her hip after the pair had argued over Kaur ‘force-feeding’ Shay fast food.
Kaur eventually moved out of the flat into a B&B, before eventually moving to the housing association property in a new-build cul-de-sac at Rowley Regis, West Midlands, where Shay was killed.
Ms Colcough kitted out Shay’s new bedroom there with furniture. But Colclough said Kaur then found a boyfriend and began boasting about what she got up to in bed with her new partner.
Kaur cut off contact with Ms Colclough and their wider friendship group soon afterwards.
Friday’s sentencing hearing at Wolverhampton Crown Court heard that Shay’s last words to her mother were ‘Ow, I hate you’ as she was stabbed multiple times.
Suffering from paranoid delusions, Kaur killed Shay to stop her being ‘taken away’ by the authorities.
The court heard Shay had been withdrawn from school for nine months up until September 2023.
During that time. police and then social workers visited the mother-and-daughter at home and decided Shay was a ‘child in need’, while Kaur was noticed to be paranoid.
Upon Shay’s return to school, the youngster told teachers she had had no-one to speak to while at home.
She said the pair spent their time in separate rooms and ‘did nothing and went nowhere’.
Shay told her teachers she would spend her time daydreaming or playing on her Nintendo DS and there was no physical affection between mother and daughter.
Kaur’s second former friend told how, when the mother and daughter were living in the B&B, she had to buy Shay new underwear after discovering Kaur had only bought her one set.
She told the Mail: ‘I feel like we let Shay down.
‘I can’t imagine what she went through. To know the person who is supposed to love you the most is the one you need protection from…it’s heartbreaking.’
