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A 27-year-old man told his sister, "No one's going to hurt you again" before stabbing her abusive boyfriend a third time, a court has been told.

Family of a man fatally stabbed by a love rival have told court their son and brother had only wanted to protect his own young son.

"It's almost as if it's your first matter as a judge," Public Defender Peter Krisenthal said.

The boy's mother said her son was "the glue" holding the family together.

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.

A NSW woman who stabbed her father to death was trying to mend their broken relationship, a court has heard.

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…

Maddison Hickson is on trial for murder but is claiming it was self-defence when she stabbed her violent criminal father twice in the chest, piercing his heart.

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.