A father who claimed his teenage daughter died in a "freak accident" during a play-fight has been jailed for at least 15 years for her murder. Scarlett Vickers, 14, bled to death at her home in Darlington after being stabbed deep in the chest with a kitchen knife by her father Simon Vickers, 50, in July.

A father who stabbed his 14-year-old daughter in the heart in a “flash of anger” while they were play-fighting has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years for her murder. The sentencing judge said Simon Vickers’ account to the jury about how he accidentally swiped a knife into his daughter Scarlett in the kitchen of their family home was “unconvincing and wholly implausible”.

A dad who stabbed his daughter in the heart has been jailed for life. Scarlett Vickers died on the night of Friday, July 5 last year at her home on Geneva Road in Darlington, reports Chronicle Live. Police and paramedics were called to a home on the street shortly after 11pm,

A father who stabbed his 14-year-old daughter in the heart while they were play-fighting in the kitchen is to be sentenced for her murder. Simon Vickers, 50, was convicted last month following a trial after jurors heard how he gave different accounts of what happened in the seconds before he plunged a kitchen knife 11cm into his daughter Scarlett’s chest.