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'MESSING AROUND': British father on trial after daughter stabbed to death while 'play fighting'

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Simon Vickers , 50 , is accused of murder or manslaughter after his daughter Scarlett , 14 , bled to death on the kitchen floor of their Darlington home.

He told police at the time that they had been playing and the next moment blood started “gushing” from her chest, a court in Teesside heard.

Vickers’ lawyer told the jury the father and daughter were “messing around together in the kitchen, in a normal playful way” when he realized she was hurt.

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