A 32-year-old father was yesterday jailed for life after sexually assaulting his daughter and injecting an alcoholic woman with a fatal dose of heroin.

Teesside Crown Court heard how the man admitted the indecent assault on his ten-year-old daughter after a drinking session.

The defendant, from Middlesbrough, also pleaded guilty to manslaughter after injecting a drunken woman with heroin. The woman later died of an overdose.

Rebecca Sherman, prosecuting, said that the defendant was arrested for man-slaughter while on bail for a charge of indecent assault on his daughter, now aged 12.

She said: "On the matter of the indecent assault, he was extremely intoxicated at the time of the attack.

"He had had an argument with his babysitter, then watched pornographic material, and then went up to his daughter's bedroom." He then indecently assaulted her.

The court also heard that while on bail he gave a 39-year-old alcoholic woman a fatal dose of heroin.

In mitigation, Robert Terry told the court that the woman had been too drunk to inject it herself.

He said: "She had asked other people to do it for her, and although the defendant had never injected heroin, only amphetamines into himself, he did.

"He checked on her and thought she was just asleep. He went out, and when he returned she was still breathing, but later when he checked she had gone a blue colour, and he called for help."

The defendant was sentenced to four-and-a-half years for indecent assault, and sentenced to life imprisonment, to run concurrently, for manslaughter