Father may have thrown daughter into Parramatta River in suspected murder-suicide, police say

NSW police say suicide note and ‘other evidence’ suggest six-year-old’s death was an act of domestic violence

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A suicide note has been located after the bodies of a young girl and her father were pulled from the Parramatta River on Saturday.

The six-year-old may have been deliberately thrown in the water by the man from a hired boat in what police believe was a horrific act of domestic violence.