Violent history of 'world's unluckiest father' who murdered daughter in 'play fight'
Violent history of 'world's unluckiest father' who murdered daughter in 'play fight'
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A dad who was convicted of murdering his 14-year-old daughter after claiming to have stabbed her 'accidentally' has been found to have a history of serious violence. Simon Vickers, 50, claimed he and his daughter Scarlett were 'mucking around' in the kitchen in June last year when he plunged an 11cm into her chest and heart. During a trial in which he denied her murder and manslaughter, the dad said: "We were horse-playing. I must be the unluckiest man in the world.".
But forensic evidence proved he had 'deliberately' stabbed the teenager due to the nature of the wound she had sustained. Scarlett died from rapid blood loss on June 5 last year after the kitchen knife pierced her chest and heart at the family home in Darlington, County Durham. Simon admitted he had drunk four glasses of wine and smoked half of a joint that evening, claiming the schoolgirl's death was the result of a "freak accident".
It has now emerged that Simon was also convicted of wounding with intent in 1993 and sentenced to two years’ detention at age 19, MailOnline reports. The father has six previous convictions, the details of which are unknown at this stage. He claimed that during a 'playfight', he 'accidentally' threw the knife at Scarlett and suggested a 'theory' to the jury that Scarlett may then have accidentally come onto the knife after it 'hit the side of the hot-plate and stuck out over the side of the counter'. But Mark McKone, KC, prosecuting, suggested the dad may have become 'irritated' with the teenager after she and her mother were throwing grapes in the kitchen.
