Child dies during 'Roman execution'

A police officer's son slipped on to a knife and was stabbed through the heart as his father demonstrated a Roman execution, an inquest has heard.
Conor Johnson, 11, who was staying with his father, Pc Ian Johnson, last August, died from a single stab wound.

The hearing in West Sussex heard Mr Johnson, of Littlehampton, had used a four-inch kitchen knife to re-enact pictures in a book about Roman times.

Worthing Magistrates' Court recorded a verdict of accidental death.

The inquest was read a statement made by the 40-year-old, in which he told how he had bought his son a book about gladiators and the Roman arenas.

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