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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sam Rigney

Woman killed her dad in 'anger', not self-defence: jury told

Maddison Hickson has pleaded not guilty to murdering her father Michael Carroll at Tenambit in January, 2021. Ms Hickson is on trial in NSW Supreme Court, alongside her friend Taylah Renae McDonald.

A YOUNG woman accused of murdering her father at Tenambit last year was acting out of "anger or frustration" and not in self-defence when she stabbed him twice in the chest, the blade piercing his heart, a jury has been told.

Maddison Hickson, 23, on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to murdering her father Michael Carroll, 50, at a home in Ronald Street at Tenambit on January 16 last year and faced the first day of an estimated three-week trial in NSW Supreme Court.

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