A father who murdered his baby daughter by snapping her spine in two was yesterday jailed for a minimum of 22 years.

James Howson twisted the arms and legs of the 16-month-old girl before breaking her back over his knee.

In the two months before the final barbaric act, jobless Howson, 25, had inflicted more than 40 injuries to his daughter, Amy.

He had had a violent streak ever since his teenage years and at the age of 14 was expelled from school, Leeds Crown Court heard.

A teacher noted at the time: 'This boy will commit a murder before too long. I've never seen such a disturbed young man.'

He had a history of violence to women and was addicted to cannabis, smoking the drug each day.

Jailing him for life, Mrs Justice Cox said he had shown no remorse for the 'chilling and brutal' murder.

'The bone was completely dislocated, resulting in spinal shock, rapid unconsciousness - mercifully - and to death,' she said.

'The force you used upon her must have been considerable.'

Howson had 'cruelly and deliberately' assaulted Amy in the weeks before, she added, breaking her ribs and limbs. She was dehydrated and covered in bruises and was screaming with pain.

there are some truly sick people in this world... *deep sigh*

someone should do the same to that sob

Some people shood just be taken out back and shot

before they granted him a long slow painful death

Ok i know that this is probably not politically correct and all the bleeding hearts out there are going to probably crucify me but ya know i really don't care-

I strongly believe that when a person commits murder and they are convicted- the same thing they did to the victim should be done to them.

child molesters- just put them in the general population of the roughest prison and let it be known what they did and let the inmates take care of business.

I also believe that if a person is convicted of a heinous crime- there should be no endless appeals-They get 3 meals a day, an education, usually free legal representation, they can work out- HELL they live better than most honest people and im sick of it- you commit a heinous crime and are sentenced to death- they should die within the week- in the same manner they murdered their victim as i stated before.

These are my honest thoughts and im not gonna argue with anyone-

Have a great day!!

thats horrible. poor little amy....may she rest peacefully..

they should have been aborted..

believe me the prison population will take care of buisness in this matter.he will be dead fast.

What gives me a cold chill is how could anyone have sex with someone so vicious or leave a baby in his presence. There are a lot of people who should be going to prison with this animal too. First time someone put a mark on my baby I would kill the SOB.