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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

Maddison Hickson stabbed father twice 'not out of fear but anger' after being called 'a slut and a dog': prosecution says

Maddison Hickson outside Newcastle courthouse

MADDISON Hickson was the one armed with a knife throughout a fatal confrontation with her father inside a house at Tenambit last year and stabbed him twice "not out of fear but anger" after he called her "a slut and a dog" in front of her friends, a jury has been told.

Ms Hickson, now 25, does not deny stabbing her father, violent criminal Michael Carroll, 50, at a house at Ronald Street on January 16 last year, but has pleaded not guilty to murder and claims she was acting in self-defence after she says he came towards her with a knife during a volatile argument.

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