— A Crown prosecutor says a Newfoundland man murdered his five-year-old daughter in a calculated plan to inflict suffering on her mother, his estranged wife. Butt testified earlier that he did not remember killing Quinn, but said he found himself over her body and concluded he must have suffocated her. Crown lawyer Lloyd Strickland pointed to the note, which he described as “rife with hatred” of Gosse, as proof that Butt planned to kill Quinn to keep her from her mother. Strickland argued that considering Butt planned to take his own life, he did not try to hide his true motivations in the note. A man stands charged with the first-degree murder of his own daughter,” Burrage said.

Source: National Post March 14, 2019 17:00 UTC