Evil child killer brutally attacked mum on bus after she nudged him with pram

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An evil child killer who beat a three-year-old boy to death was previously locked up for brutally assaulting a mum who nudged him with her pram on a busy bus.

Sick Nathaniel Pope dragged his victim onto the street by her hair, before repeatedly kicking her as she cowered on the ground.Her two terrified daughters, aged just three and three months, were left to watch on in horror.

Pope, 31, was this week sentenced to life in jail for the murder of tot Kemarni Watson Darby, the Mirror reports. Captured on CCTV in Hendon, London, the bus attack took place over a decade ago when furious Pope launched the savage attack on the woman.

The 23-year-old mum had merely nudged Pope and his then partner with her pushchair on the crowded bus.For that, she was abused, spat at and dragged through the vehicle by her hair.Pope smashed her head into a handrail, flung her on the pavement, then kicked her as she lay on the ground.Panic-stricken, the mum attempted to fend off her attacker with a child’s brolly.Pope used “considerable force” to block the victim’s efforts to get back to her children, still on the bus, Hendon Magistrates' Court was told in 2011.For the appalling attack, Pope received only four months in prison after admitting common assault.His partner received a three month suspended sentence for the same offence.Pope has now been found guilty of killing three-year-old Kemarni Watson Darby, his partner's son.The child's injuries were so bad they were compared to a car crash or a fall from height.Kemarni, who was described as a "lively, boisterous, cheeky and happy child" died from abdominal injuries at his West Bromwich home in June 2018.The catalogue of damage included four broken ribs believed to have been sustained four