From China, CEOAFRICA.com gathered that a man has been sentenced to death for killing a two-year-old girl in Beijing.

It was gathered that Han Lei, 39, killed the young girl over a parking space row. He was said to have pulled the toddler out of her pram and threw her to the ground after her mother refused to make way for his car in July.

Sources disclosed that Lei fled the scene, but was later captured. The girl died from her injuries.

He told the court that the killing was unintentional due to the fact that he was drunk and had thought the pram was a shopping cart.  

 “I did not know there was an infant inside,” he said.

The trial began on September 16 amid wide online protest in China, as it was also gathered that Lei also beats the girl’s mother during the argument period in Beiging.

Prosecutors had recommended the death sentence for Han, who committed the crime within a year of being released from prison, the Xinhua news agency said.