Child killer ‘didn’t know his own strength’

A father accused of murdering his daughter by hurling her into her cot when she was a baby told police: ‘I don’t know my own strength,’ a court heard. Dean Smith, 45, was previously jailed for three years for throwing little Maisie Newell ‘four to five feet’ across the room on 26 August 2000. The baby suffered a fractured skull and brain damage after the brutal assault, which prosecutors claim Smith launched in a ‘fit of temper’ at his daughter’s…