The judge said Mujuru was unlikely to have harmed her baby

Sandra Mujuru, from New Malden, south-west London, was convicted in April under new domestic violence laws of allowing Ayesha to be killed.

She had been facing a 14-year jail sentence but an Old Bailey judge said it would not be in the public interest to send her to prison.

The 21-year-old received a two-year community order.

Judge Christopher Moss told Mujuru: "You were a decent young woman who was caught in a vulnerable position. You simply did not know which way to turn.

Stephens was jailed for life for the murder

"You were a young woman who loved her child very much indeed and would have been highly unlikely to have harmed her."

Her live-in partner Jerry Stephens, 37, of New Malden, was found guilty at the Old Bailey in April of murder and was jailed for life.

He was also found guilty of causing four-month-old Ayesha grievous bodily harm with intent and child cruelty. Stephens will have to serve a minimum of 20 years.

Mujuru, a Zimbabwean asylum seeker, was also found guilty of child cruelty in failing to get medical assistance for the baby.

The court had heard Ayesha was found with a head injury, wrapped tightly in a blanket lying in her cot.

It was alleged Stephens smashed her head against a hard surface while Ayesha's mother was at work in a local supermarket.