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| Mylee Billingham: Dad found guilty of daughter's stab murder | Mylee Billingham: Dad found guilty of daughter's stab murder |
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| A man who stabbed his eight-year-old daughter in the chest in an apparent act of revenge against his ex-partner has been found guilty of murder. | |
| William Billingham, 55, used a kitchen knife to kill Mylee after dragging her by the coat into his bungalow near Walsall on 20 January. | William Billingham, 55, used a kitchen knife to kill Mylee after dragging her by the coat into his bungalow near Walsall on 20 January. |
| Birmingham Crown Court heard he killed her moments after holding the blade to the neck of her mother Tracey Taundry. | |
| Billingham was convicted of murder and making a threat to kill Miss Taundry. | |
| The jurors deliberated for about 80 minutes before unanimously convicting Billingham of the two charges. | |
| Prosecutors said he had "turned his anger" on Mylee to spite Miss Taundry after she began a relationship with a woman. | |
| The unemployed factory worker opted not to give evidence and claimed he had no memory of stabbing his daughter. He said he was guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter due to depression. | |
| But, at the start of the trial, prosecutor Karim Khalil QC said of the killing: "It was swift, deliberate, clinical, brutal. | |
| "It was not some manic, unfocused assault. | |
| "This was no accident and it was not a slight injury. It was a deep, violent thrust of a lethal weapon into the most vulnerable part of his young daughter's body." | |
| Billingham will be sentenced at the court on Tuesday. |