Simon Vickers has been sentenced to a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years for the murder of his 14-year-old daughter Scarlett. Fifteen years is the lowest minimum term the judge can pass down ...

Simon Vickers was said to have struck the killer knife blow in a fit of anger at Scarlett Vickers, 14, after she called him a 'wimp'. The 50-year-old factory worker must serve a minimum of 15 ...

Simon Vickers, 50, was found guilty last month of killing Scarlett Vickers on July 5 inside the family home in Darlington, with a UK jury deliberating for 14 hours before handing down the verdict.

Simon Vickers has today been sentenced to life for the murder of his teen daughter Scarlett Vickers, with the presiding judge telling him, “You have never given a truthful explanation of what ...

The dad of a Darlington teenager is due to be sentenced for her murder this morning. Simon Vickers, 50, gave different accounts of what happened in the seconds before he plunged a kitchen knife ...

Scarlett Vickers was just 14 when her dad killed her in the kitchen of their family home during an evening of "family horseplay". Simon denied both murder and manslaughter after Scarlett was ...

The father of Scarlett Vickers has been convicted of her murder. Simon Vickers stabbed the 14-year-old through the heart. He denied murder and manslaughter, telling her trial he was the "the ...

A man who stabbed his only daughter to death in a 'momentary and devastating act of anger' has been jailed for life. Scarlett Vickers suffered a fatal stab wound to the chest when she was in the ...

Scarlett Vickers was murdered by her father Simon Vickers in the kitchen of their family home in Darlington. Credit: Durham Constabulary Simon Vickers tried to convince the jury that his daughter ...

Scarlett Vickers, 14, bled to death at her home in Darlington in July after suffering a 4in-deep (11cm) stab wound to her chest. Simon Vickers claimed he caused the fatal injury while they were ...

Scarlett Vickers died at her home in July after being stabbed in the chest A man who claimed his daughter died in a "freak accident" during a play-fight with a knife has been found guilty of her ...