An appeal by the killer of toddler Madison Horn has been abandoned.
Kevin Park, 27, was convicted of murdering the two-year-old in her home in Kelty in April last year.
He was jailed in November for 22 years for a crime that judge Michael O’Grady said was “wicked beyond all imagining”.
Madison suffered 65 separate injuries in a horrific attack in the house on Croftangry Road where she lived with her mother Anne-Marie White.
Park, Miss White’s former boyfriend, lodged a notice of intention to appeal against the guilty verdict.
An extension of time to lodge the note of appeal expired in April but an application for a further eight weeks was made.
However, the judiciary confirmed yesterday that the appeal was abandoned, although further time for submission could still be granted.
A spokesman for the Judicial Office for Scotland said: “The appeal has been deemed abandoned as the substantive note of appeal was not lodged within the relevant time limit.
“However, it remains open for an application to be lodged on behalf of the convicted person to request an extension of time in order to submit a note of appeal.”
Park was supposed to be looking after Madison while Miss White was at a party. Instead, he battered the toddler’s head off a wall twice and punched and stamped on her.
Prosecutors also believe he beat her with a broken pool cue.
Among the injuries she sustained were a fractured skull, tearing to her liver and internal bleeding.
Park had 38 previous convictions, including a number for violence.
At the time of the murder he had been involved with Miss White for five months and had recently moved into her home.