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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Evans

How a forensics expert helped convict father who claimed he accidentally killed his daughter in a play fight

“I must be the unluckiest man in the world,” were the words used by Simon Vickers, a father who had watched his daughter bleed to death after suffering a 11cm stab wound to her chest.

Describing 14-year-old Scarlett as the “love of his life”, Simon Vickers told police that they had only been play fighting in the kitchen when he accidentally stabbed her with a kitchen knife.

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