'PLAYFIGHT MURDER'
Dad who ‘hurled knife at daughter, 14, moaned HE was unlucky one after she died in pool of blood on kitchen floor’
Dad claims he was 'messing about' when knife penetrated teen's heart, court told
A DAD who claims he killed his daughter during a "playfight" moaned he was the unlucky one after she died on the kitchen floor, a court heard.
Scarlett Vickers, 14, suffered catastrophic blood loss after a knife penetrated her heart.
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Dad Simon Vickers, 50, claims he and Scarlett were just "messing about" when he accidentally threw the blade at her.
But Teesside Crown Court heard the 11cm wound was too deep to have been a tragic mistake.
Jurors today saw footage from Vickers' police interview after he was arrested on suspicion of murder.
He told officers they had been playfighting and he must have picked a knife up when he threw some tongs at her.
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Vickers continued: "That was it. We were horse-playing.
"I must be the unluckiest man in the world."
Vickers claimed the playfight started when he and Scarlett began throwing grapes at each other while mum Sarah Hall made dinner.
He said he went to "try and get her" but his daughter tried to push him away so he grabbed the tongs and chucked them.
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The dad continued: "She just shouted 'ah, ah ah' and fell to the floor.
"Her lips were going bluer and she wasn't listening when I was shouting at her.
"Sarah took over and the ambulance came and, f***ing hell."
Vickers described his only child as the "love of my life" and told police his world had "gone to s***".
He also denied telling paramedics at the scene that he picked up a knife and that it "just went in" after Scarlett "lunged towards me".
The dad added: "There is no way in the world I would stab my child. I threw those tongs at her.
"I want to die myself. My only child - I don't know what to say. I can't even cry. I don't even know what's wrong."
The court heard the dad gave "three different accounts at least before his formal police interview" of what happened.
Prosecutor Mark McKone KC previously told jurors Vickers must have stabbed his daughter "deliberately with the knife".
He said the injury inflicted to Scarlett "could not have been caused by throwing the knife or indeed by throwing anything else."
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Vickers denies murder.
The trial continues.
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