12 years for nurse who killed her daughter Knifing after sack

Tears ... Dawn Makin arriving at hearing

A SACKED nurse who stabbed her daughter to death and then tried to kill herself was jailed for 12 years yesterday.

Dawn Makin, 35, faced charges for leaking patient details and was “mentally deranged” when she knifed Chloe Burke, four, in the throat, neck and chest.
She then cut her wrists and downed anti-freeze but survived — and is now wheelchair-bound and requires 24-hour care.
After she was caged, Chloe’s distraught father Michael Burke said he thought Makin had already suffered enough. The tearful dad added: “I’m shocked at the sentence. I feel she’s already got her punishment by the way she is. She didn’t know what she was doing.

Close ... with Chloe Burke

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But Judge Anthony Russell told Preston Crown Court he had to jail Makin, who had previously admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He noted that she had “doted on Chloe”, but added: “There were defence injuries to Chloe’s hands.
“It appears she was trying to defend herself and must have suffered the most horrific fear. She trusted you.” Makin, of Bury, Gtr Manchester, had illegally accessed a computer and passed details of accident victims to her partner Martin Campbell, 34, who worked in injury claims.
A suicide note written before she killed Chloe read: “I could not leave her with no mummy.”