A man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter following the death of a child in Hackney.
Bidhya Sagar Das, 33, (31.12.83) of Wilberforce Road, N4 pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court on Thursday, 7 September, to manslaughter by diminished responsibility of a one-year-old child and the attempted murder of a second child.
He is due to be sentenced on Thursday, 12 October.
Police were called at approximately 23:10hrs on Saturday, 18 March, to reports of two children injured at a flat on Wilberforce Road, N4.
Officers attended along with London Ambulance Service (LAS).
The children were taken by ambulance to an east London hospital, where one of the children was pronounced dead at 00:48hrs the following day.
A post-mortem examination gave cause of death as blunt force trauma.
Detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command launched an investigation and issued an appeal to find Bidhya Sagar Das.
He was arrested in the Hackney area on suspicion of murder and attempted murder at 19:15hrs on Sunday, 19 March. He was taken to an east London police station and charged two days later.
The second child has since been discharged from hospital.