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Father of Alexa-Marie Quinn sentenced for her murder

Carl Wheatley will be sentenced today for killing his his four-year-old daughter by beating her to death. Alexa-Marie Quinn had 66 injuries when she died in March 2014, St Albans Crown Court heard.

Wheatley, 31, from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, admitted manslaughter but the jury rejected his plea of not guilty to murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

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Father killed daughter months after winning custody

Carl Wheatley will be jailed today for battering his four-year-old daughter to death last year, just months after winning custody.

Alexa-Marie Quinn was beat repeatedly in the weeks before her death, knocking two of her teeth out and causing her 66 injuries, pathologists said.

Carl Wheatley, 31, beat his four-year-old daughter to death. Credit: Police handout.

The supermarket worker had twice been arrested but released without charge for assault, and had been convicted for a public order offence.

His daughter had been in his care for the three months leading up to her death, after being cared for in foster parents. She was taken from her mother when she was two.

The jury at the trial heard that Wheatley's internet searches included "what glue can I use to put teeth back in."

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