As the life of Jay Windross' 11-month-old daughter slipped away at the Monash Children’s Hospital, he pleaded with his blackmailer for more time.

“My baby is in her last minutes,” he wrote on Whatsapp at 6.01pm on April 23. “Can we discuss this tomorrow? She’s about to leave us.”

Siti Kamal continued to make her demands. In return for $1000, she said she would return a phone that belonged to Jay’s wife, Deanne, and contained hundreds of photos of baby Amiyah.

Siti Nurhidayah Kamal, 24, has pleaded guilty to blackmailing the parents of a dying child. Credit:Facebook

The phone had been stolen three days earlier at Chadstone Shopping Centre. Jay had posted on Facebook, desperate for its return. He was unaware at the time, but Kamal did not have the phone.