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<\/p>\nA suicide note has been located after the bodies of a young girl and her father were pulled from the Parramatta River on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The six-year-old may have been deliberately thrown in the water from a hire boat by the man in a horrific act of domestic violence, police believe.<\/p>\n
“We have uncovered a suicide note and some other evidence drawing us to this conclusion,” NSW Police Marine Area Commander, Superintendent Joe McNulty, told 2GB on Monday.<\/p>\n
Officers were called to Hen and Chicken Bay at Concord, in Sydney’s inner west, at about 11.45am following reports of man’s body floating in the river.<\/p>\n
A boat owned by a member of the public was used by police to retrieve the 47-year-old, but he was unable to be revived. <\/p>\n
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Reports that a young girl had also been present prompted a widespread search that lasted several hours before her body was also recovered from the water.<\/p>\n
Police used CCTV images of the incident from a nearby home to help direct divers to locate the body of the girl.<\/p>\n
The man was not known to police and had no recorded history of domestic violence, leaving police with the difficult job of unravelling what occurred.<\/p>\n
“We’re trying to make sense of this senseless crime,” McNulty said.<\/p>\n
“We really need to make sense of this, because it is a complex investigation.”<\/p>\n
McNulty said officers were immediately suspicious as to the circumstances of the incident because life jackets were on board the boat but had not been used.<\/p>\n
“It just didn’t stack up,” he said.<\/p>\n
The mother of the girl was notified and present during the search for her daughter.<\/p>\n
“At this stage it’s horrible but we’re wrapping so much care around the victim and the mother that’s been left behind,” McNulty said.<\/p>\n
The girl is the couple’s only child, NSW Police Burwood Command Superintendent Christine McDonald told media on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, a mother in this situation … it would rock any mother to the core,” she said.<\/p>\n
A friend of the man had contacted police an hour after his body was located with concerns for the father and daughter’s welfare, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suicide note has been located after the bodies of a young girl and her father were pulled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-477984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}