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Katie Dickinson

Man accused of stabbing daughter told police ‘I must be unluckiest man in world’

Teesside Crown Court heard that Simon Vickers denies both the murder and the manslaughter of his daughter Scarlett (Owen Humphreys/PA) - (PA Archive)

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.

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