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| Mylee Billingham: Father jailed for murdering daughter | Mylee Billingham: Father jailed for murdering daughter |
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| A man who murdered his eight-year-old daughter in an apparent act of revenge against his ex-partner has been jailed for a minimum of 27 years. | A man who murdered his eight-year-old daughter in an apparent act of revenge against his ex-partner has been jailed for a minimum of 27 years. |
| William Billingham, 55, used a kitchen knife to kill Mylee at his home near Walsall on 20 January. | William Billingham, 55, used a kitchen knife to kill Mylee at his home near Walsall on 20 January. |
| Judge Paul Farrer QC told him the murder was an act of "revenge" which was "driven by jealousy and anger". | |
| He was convicted of murder and making a threat to kill Mylee's mother Tracey Taundry at Birmingham Crown Court. | |
| The jury heard he had "turned his anger" on Mylee after her mother, Miss Taundry, began a relationship with a woman. | |
| Billingham was given a concurrent two-year sentence for making a threat to kill Miss Taundry while holding a knife to her neck. | |
| Judge Farrer told Billingham: "You turned that anger upon Mylee and killed her in order to cause pain to her mother. | |
| "As such, this was an act of revenge. Alternately, this was the brutal, cowardly, killing of a defenceless and much-loved child who had her whole life ahead of her." | |
| The unemployed factory worker opted not to give evidence during his trial and claimed he had no memory of stabbing Mylee. | |
| He claimed he was guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter due to depression. |