A 45-year-old man has been jailed for 25 years for murdering his five-week-old granddaughter.
Prosecutors said Mark Jones killed baby Amelia Jones because he did not like the infant's father - the boyfriend of Jones' daughter.
Jones had tricked his daughter Sarah into thinking he was ill for more than a year before attacking the baby at her home in Pontnewydd, South Wales.
He claimed Amelia's death had been a tragic accident after he dropped her on two separate nights in November 2012.
Doctors found Amelia had suffered a catastrophic bleed to the brain as well as fractures to her skull, ribs and leg.
Jones had used illness to worm his way into Ms Jones' life - pretending to pass out in front of her after telling her he had taken "anti-cancer drugs" and phoning her up masquerading as a doctor.
When Ms Jones went to the cinema, he volunteered to babysit and later attacked Amelia.
Newport Crown Court heard the defendant called his daughter first, rather than dial 999, after Amelia stopped breathing.
She died 48 hours later in hospital - aged just 41 days old.
Experts believe she suffered a serious blow to the head and was vigorously shaken.
To make it look like he was ill, Jones had hobbled around on a crutch with what appeared to be plastic tubes sticking out of his chest.
The court was told that Jones was a serial liar who could not be trusted.
During the impact statement Ms Jones read to the court, she said her life had been totally destroyed - and her other children suffered nightmares.
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