A high court judge, Mr Justice Cotter, said Simon Vickers, 50, would serve at least 15 years in jail for killing 14-year-old Scarlett Vickers.
Father who murdered teenage daughter in Darlington jailed for life Simon Vickers stabbed 14-year-old Scarlett with a knife while they were ‘mucking about’ in the kitchen.
Vickers, of Darlington, County Durham, had denied charges of murder and manslaughter and gave different accounts of what might have happened on the night Scarlett died.
A forensic pathologist told a trial at Teesside crown court in Middlesbrough that Scarlett’s fatal injury, a stab to the heart, could only have been caused by a knife that was held and used with force.
Mark McKone KC, prosecuting, said Vickers was lying to the jury and that he may have been “irritated” by his daughter’s behaviour that night.
