Dad who ‘hurled knife at daughter, 14, moaned HE was unlucky one after she died in pool of blood on kitchen floor’
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A DAD who claims he killed his daughter during a "playfight" moaned he was the unlucky one after she died on the kitchen floor, a court heard. Scarlett Vickers, 14, suffered catastrophic blood loss after a knife penetrated her heart. Dad Simon Vickers, 50, claims he and Scarlett were just "messing about" when he accidentally threw the blade at her.
![[Black and white selfie of a teenage girl.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/tragic-end-heartbreaking-last-vid-915791363-1.png?strip=all&w=445)
But Teesside Crown Court heard the 11cm wound was too deep to have been a tragic mistake. Jurors today saw footage from Vickers' police interview after he was arrested on suspicion of murder. He told officers they had been playfighting and he must have picked a knife up when he threw some tongs at her.
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Vickers continued: "That was it. We were horse-playing. "I must be the unluckiest man in the world.". Vickers claimed the playfight started when he and Scarlett began throwing grapes at each other while mum Sarah Hall made dinner. He said he went to "try and get her" but his daughter tried to push him away so he grabbed the tongs and chucked them.
![[Black and white photo of a young woman making a peace sign and puckering her lips.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/tragic-end-heartbreaking-last-vid-915791357-1.png?strip=all&w=791)
The dad continued: "She just shouted 'ah, ah ah' and fell to the floor. "Her lips were going bluer and she wasn't listening when I was shouting at her. "Sarah took over and the ambulance came and, f****** hell.". Vickers described his only child as the "love of my life" and told police his world had "gone to s***".
![[Photo of Scarlett Vickers.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/14-year-old-scarlett-vickers-915636418_ddeb00.jpg?strip=all&w=633)
