Scarlett Vickers' dad tells police they were 'mucking around' when knife plunged into her chest

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Scarlett Vickers' dad tells police they were 'mucking around' when knife plunged into her chest
Author: mirrornews@mirror.co.uk (John Siddle, Liam Buckler)
Published: Jan, 20 2025 22:10

This is the moment Scarlett Vickers' dad tells police they were "just mucking around in the kitchen" after he was accused of stabbing his teenage daughter to death. Scarlett Vickers, 14, died from rapid blood loss after a knife plunged 11cm into her chest, piercing her heart. Simon Vickers, 50, denies murder and manslaughter, claiming the pair were "mucking around" in the kitchen of their family home, in Darlington, Durham, on June 5 last year.

Jurors at Teesside Crown Court watched footage of Vickers being booked into custody at Darlington police station after being arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. He was later rearrested on suspicion of murder after Scarlett succumbed to her fatal injury.

Vickers said while being booked in: "I just want to know how my daughter's doing. We were mucking about, playing in the kitchen, and for some reason this has gone really weird. We were mucking about. I can't believe this. "Please someone tell me. What's going on? We are going on holiday to f***ing Gran Canaria in six weeks. F***ing hell. I don't believe this is happening.

"We were cooking tea. Just mucking about in the kitchen. I don't understand how this has happened. Honestly." Emergency services were called to the family's semi-detached home in Geneva Road on June 5 to find Scarlett collapsed on the kitchen floor. Vickers, who admitted drinking four glasses of wine and smoking half of a joint, told the court he accepted causing Scarlett's fatal chest wound but had no knowledge of touching the green-handled knife.

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