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Father who fatally stabbed daughter during kitchen ‘play-fight’ jailed for life

Jurors found Simon Vickers guilty after they heard how he had given three different accounts of what happened

Evening Standard · Feb 10, 2025

Dad who stabbed daughter in heart during ‘play-fight’ is jailed for life

Simon Vickers had been drinking wine, watching the Euros football tournament and had smoked cannabis that day

The Independent UK · Feb 10, 2025

Father guilty of murdering daughter after stabbing her in kitchen ‘play-fight’

Simon Vickers, 50, gave different accounts of what happened in the seconds before he plunged a kitchen knife into his daughter Scarlett’s chest.

Evening Standard · Jan 27, 2025

Boy, 14, on trial for murder shouted ‘I’m gonna wet you’, court told

Tomasz Oleszak, also 14, suffered a fatal stab wound while he was with a group of young people in a nature park in Gateshead last October.

The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2023

Jack Woodley: Mother of teenager murdered by 10 boys ‘stopped from holding dying son’s hand’

Ten teenagers have been sentenced to life terms for murdering the 18-year-old as he walked home from a funfair

The Independent UK · Aug 6, 2022

Gang of 10 teens jailed for 124 years for murdering 18-year-old walking home from funfair

Jack Woodley was fatally stabbed with a 'Rambo-style' knife after being 'surrounded and isolated' by a gang of youths who chased him down an alleyway

Daily Mirror · Aug 5, 2022