Killer dad ‘is not guilty of murder because he had ADHD’

A father accused of murdering his daughter by throwing her into her cot when she was a baby may have been suffering from ADHD and depression at the time of the attack, a court heard. Dean Smith, 45, is accused of the murder of Maisie Williams, 13, who suffered a fractured skull and brain damage from the incident on 26 August 2000 and later died in 2014. Dr Utpaul Bose, a forensic psychiatrist instructed to assess Smith’s mental state, told…

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