Father called four week old daughter ‘The Bitch’ before he killed her

A warehouse worker accused of murdering his baby daughter told his partner ‘Don’t leave me alone with a screaming baby for hours’ before hurling her into her cot, a court heard. Dean Smith, 46, killed Maisie Newell by throwing her ‘four to five feet’ across the bedroom on 26 August 2000, when she was only four weeks old. The attack left Maisie with a fractured skull and brain injuries, and she was cared for by adoptive parents until she eventually…