Man was suffering drug-induced psychosis when he struck four-year-old daughter in the head with a cricket bat

By Sam Rigney
Updated September 13 2018 - 7:03am, first published 7:00am
Newcastle courthouse.
Newcastle courthouse.

A MAN who hit his four-year-old daughter over the head with a cricket bat “as hard as he could” while the girl was sleeping has been jailed for a maximum of six years and nine months in Newcastle District Court.

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