Man accused of stabbing daughter told police ‘I must be unluckiest man in world’
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A father who claims his 14-year-old daughter died after he accidentally threw a knife at her during a kitchen “play-fight” told police he “must be the unluckiest man in the world”, a court heard. Simon Vickers, 50, denies both the murder and the manslaughter of his daughter Scarlett, in the kitchen of their home in Darlington, Co Durham, on July 5 last year.
Teesside Crown Court heard Scarlett died after being stabbed through the heart, with prosecutors saying the 11cm wound was too deep to have been caused accidentally. On Friday jurors heard a video-recorded police interview with Simon Vickers, 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. Vickers said Scarlett’s mother, Sarah Hall, was cooking tea, and he and Scarlett were sitting on either side of a breakfast bar. He told officers: “She had some grapes. We started throwing grapes at each other and some splattered on the wall.
“Then I went to try and get her and she tried to push me away. I grabbed the tongs and threw them at her. That’s it, that’s all it was. “She just shouted ‘ah, ah ah’ and fell to the floor.”. Vickers described trying to help Scarlett, but said that: “Her lips were going bluer and she wasn’t listening when I was shouting at her.
