Child killer gets three and a half years

A bad tempered father who killed his daughter by throwing her into her cot when she was a four week old baby was jailed for three and a half years today (weds). Dean Smith, 46, hurled tiny Maisie Newell across her bedroom because he was furious he had been left to look after her on his own on 26 August 2000. An hour before he killed her, the warehouse worker shouted at the baby’s mother: ”Don’t leave me with a…