Father guilty of murdering his daughter, 14, after he stabbed her in kitchen of their home in Darlington
A father has been found guilty of murdering his daughter after he stabbed her in the heart at their home in Darlington.
Simon Vickers, 50, was convicted of murder at Teesside Crown Court on Monday.
He gave different accounts of what happened in the seconds before he plunged a kitchen knife into his daughter Scarlett’s chest last July.
The 14-year-old died at the scene.
Prosecutors said the 11cm wound was too deep to have been caused accidentally, and the knife must have been “held firmly” at the time.
Vickers claimed the incident happened during a family play-fight in the kitchen and was a “freak accident”.
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