Maddison Hickson has been acquitted of murdering her career criminal father Michael Carroll, a jury finding she was acting in self-defence when she twice stabbed him in the chest with a knife at a home at Tenambit last year.
Ms Hickson, now 25, did not deny stabbing her dad, a feared and unpredictable standover man, at a house at Ronald Street on January 16 last year, but pleaded not guilty to murder and claimed she was acting in self-defence after he came towards her with a knife during a volatile argument.
