Father and daughter, 14, ‘messing about’ before fatal knife wound, UK court hears
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Simon Vickers accused of murder or manslaughter of his child after incident at home in Darlington. A father accused of stabbing to death his 14-year-old daughter in the family kitchen told police they were “just mucking around” throwing objects at each other while cooking tea, a court has heard.
Simon Vickers, 50, is standing trial at Teesside crown court in Middlesbrough accused of the murder or manslaughter of his daughter Scarlett Vickers. He denies both charges. Mark McKone KC, prosecuting, said paramedics were called to the family home in Darlington where they found Scarlett on the kitchen floor with a stab wound.
“Scarlett bled to death in her own home,” he said. McKone said a 999 call was made on 5 July last year by Scarlett’s mother Sarah Hall who told the operator they had been “messing about” and that her partner had thrown something at their daughter “and he didn’t realise”.
Vickers told paramedic Andrew Crow that his daughter had lunged towards him during a bout of play-fighting, the court heard. The paramedic pronounced that Scarlett had died at 11.50pm, about an hour after he arrived at the house. The court heard that PC Adam Tobling saw the parents sitting together on a sofa and both had blood on their hands and clothing and were “visibly upset”.
