Killer dad: ‘I’m a low life scumbag’

A father accused of murdering his daughter by hurling her into her cot sobbed as he told a court: ‘I just wanted her to sleep.’ Dean Smith, 45, was previously jailed 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 crying. Maisie was left with life-changing injuries…