{"id":148081,"date":"2021-12-23T01:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T01:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=148081"},"modified":"2021-12-23T01:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T01:05:49","slug":"dad-left-4-week-old-daughter-with-unspeakable-injuries-that-led-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/dad-left-4-week-old-daughter-with-unspeakable-injuries-that-led-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad left 4-week-old daughter with 'unspeakable injuries' that led to death"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE father of a girl who died nearly 14 years after she was left with \u201cunspeakable injuries\u201d as a baby has been jailed for three and a half years.<\/p>\n

Maisie Newell was just four weeks old when she suffered severe head injuries as a result of a brutal assault by father Dean Smith in August 2000.<\/p>\n


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She was left with life-changing injuries and was cared for by adoptive parents until she eventually died at home with them on June 28, 2014 – just before her 14th birthday.<\/p>\n

Smith, 46, now of Bushey, Watford, Hertfordshire, had pleaded guilty to manslaughter, but was cleared of her murder following a trial at the Old Bailey in September.<\/p>\n

Giving evidence, the disgraced Dad described himself as a "lowlife scumbag".<\/p>\n

He admitted throwing his daughter \u201dfour to five feet\u201d across a bedroom before smoking a cigarette and necking a beer at a flat in Edgware, North West\u00a0London.<\/p>\n

He told jurors he had asked his partner not to go out on the day of the incident because he was feeling "anxious" and "on edge", and did not want to be left with a "screaming baby".<\/p>\n

Initially, Smith kept quiet about what happened but, after telling his partner, they concocted a lie, claiming Maisie's 18-month-old brother had dragged her into the bathroom and dropped her on the floor.<\/p>\n

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