Father may have thrown daughter into Parramatta River, police say

A suicide note was found after the bodies of a six-year-old girl and her father were pulled from the Parramatta River on Saturday. The child may have been deliberately thrown into the water by the man from a hired boat in what police believe was a horrific act of domestic violence.

"We have uncovered a suicide note and some other evidence drawing us to this conclusion," NSW police marine area commander, Supt Joe McNulty, told 2GB radio. Officers were called to Hen and Chicken Bay at Concord, in Sydney’s inner west, at about 11.45am after reports of a man’s body floating in the water.

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. Reports that a young girl had also been present prompted a widespread search which lasted several hours before her body was also recovered from the water.

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