Sydney dad jailed for filming daughter playing with pistol

A Sydney dad is in jail after a video of him pretending to shoot his young daughter with a gun, before letting her play with it, caught police attention.

The dad filmed himself pretending to shoot his daughter. Picture: 9 News

A Sydney dad has been jailed almost a year after terrifying videos, showing his four-year-old daughter playing with a .45 calibre pistol and pretending to be shot, came to light.

The 33-year-old father, from Revesby in Sydney’s south west, filmed himself encouraging his daughter to shoot him as she laughed and waved the weapon around.

“Go, go, go,” he’s heard telling his daughter in footage obtained by 9 News. “Kick it back, come on you know what to do”.

In another video, the dad is seen pretending to shoot his daughter as she plays along, pretending to die and lying on the ground.

The little girl was filmed playing with the gun.

The contents of the Revesby man’s phone caught the attention of police last year when he was pulled over for a random breath test in July.

Police found he was driving on a disqualified license and also had a fake ID. After searching his phone, police found numerous pictures of the 33-year-old posing with illegal guns and the footage with his daughter.

He was charged with six offences, four of which involved illegal weapon possession.

NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch lashed the 33-year-old dad last year before his court case in August.

“Allowing a child to play with a firearm of any kind is reprehensible and is a serious criminal offence,” Mr Murdoch said.

One of the photos police found on the dad's phone. Picture: 9News

Speaking to 9 News, the lawyer for the Revesby dad said he regretted his behaviour.

“As a result he’s now spent, will spend a year and 9 months away from his daughter. He accepts that that was the wrong approach as a father and he shouldn’t be teaching her those type of things,” his lawyer Ahmed Dib said.

“He was at friend’s houses and he made a foolish an extremely foolish decision to take photos almost in a bravado sort of stance and thought at that stage it was cool.

“He demonstrated to the courts how sincere in terms of his apology was, his remorse, and he realises how silly the mistake was he made.”

The father will be eligible for parole in March after being sentenced to two years and eight months in jail.