Scarlett Vickers was at home in her kitchen when a knife plunged 11cm into her chest, piercing her heart. Her dad Simon Vickers has been convicted of her murder.
A father who stabbed his 14-year-old daughter in the heart while they were play-fighting in the kitchen has been convicted of her murder. Simon Vickers, 50, gave different accounts of what happened in the seconds before he plunged a kitchen knife 11cm into his daughter Scarlett’s chest at their home in Darlington, England last July.
In his closing speech Mr McKone said the prosecution accepted that Vickers was “devastated” and loved his daughter. But the blow could not have been caused by it being accidentally swiped across a work surface and so deeply into her body. Mr Lumley added: “However, he denies completely that he did anything unlawful or deliberate to cause that tragic death.”
The mother said she then snipped at her partner with tongs and when he complained that it hurt, their daughter made reference to him being “wimpy”. In his prosecution opening speech to the jury, Mr McKone said: “Mr Crow said that initially the defendant and Scarlett’s mum said they were unsure how the injury occurred and then Scarlett’s mum said that Scarlett and her dad were play-fighting and ‘chucking’ knives at each other.
Following the conviction, Anna Barker, senior crown prosecutor with CPS North East, said: “The account provided by Simon Vickers about how his daughter, Scarlett, sustained a fatal injury is wholly inconsistent with the forensic evidence in this case.
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