He received a photograph of her with the chilling caption: ‘Sorry, just thought you deserved one last picture and memory of her.’ (Picture: SWNS)

A heartbroken dad has revealed that his ex girlfriend sent him taunting texts before suffocating their two-year-old daughter to death.

Cody-Anne Jackson killed toddler Macey Hogan after dad Paul, 24, moved out.

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The couple, who had been together for three years, split after their relationship took a turn for the worse.

Speaking for the first time about the tragedy, which took place in October 2016, dad Paul Hogan, 24, said he ‘thought everything was fine’ when he dropped little Macey back to her mum in Staffordshire in October 2016.


However he later received a photograph of her with the chilling caption: ‘Sorry, just thought you deserved one last picture and memory of her.’

‘She would have been going to school soon. Sometimes I think about what she would be like now’ (Picture: NTI)

Macey would have been three now, four in March. (Picture: NTI)

Jackson was jailed for life in July last year after she pleaded guilty to the murder during a trial at Stafford Crown Court.



In the hours before the murder, the 20-year-old bombarded Paul with angry texts regarding their former relationship.

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He had moved out of the family home just one week before the child was found dead by police.

Speaking to the Mirror, Paul said: ‘I haven’t fully recovered, some days it hits me really hard. Macey would have been three now, four in March.

‘She would have been going to school soon. Sometimes I think about what she would be like now. Nothing can help. When you lose a child like that, nothing can help you.’

During Jackson’s trial, it was heard that she had left a suicide note saying that there was ‘nothing for me or Macey, life’s shit.’

Cody-Anne Jackson killed toddler Macey Hogan after dad Paul, 24, moved out. (Picture: NTI)

She was told she must spend a minimum of 16 years behind bars. (Picture: Staffordshire Police/PA Wire)

She later dialled 999 and said Macey had ‘stopped breathing’.

Paramedics rushed to the scene but the little girl had died after being smothered.

She was told she must spend a minimum of 16 years behind bars.

Paul added: ‘I stayed in my room for a couple of months, just drinking. I didn’t really leave my bed. I never would have left Macey with her if I ever thought something like that could have happened’.