This is really weird!- Hock
Boy, 11, stabbed through the heart as policeman father demonstrated killing
12:06pm 6th July 2006
Accidental death: Tragic Conor Johnson
A policeman stabbed his son through the heart while demonstrating a tribal killing, an inquest heard today.
Conor Johnson, 11, of Littlehampton, West Sussex, died from a single thrust of the knife by his father, Pc Ian Johnson.
Worthing Magistrates' Court heard that Mr Johnson had a passion for self-sufficiency and spent many weekends teaching Conor how to track animals and live off the land. Conor was given his first knife at the age of five.
On the day before he died - August 13 last year - Conor was staying at his father's flat and Mr Johnson was cooking them dinner while describing a tribal killing, he told Dr Philippa Fabb, a junior anaesthetist at Worthing Hospital.
She said: "He was describing some sort of tribal killing that occurred to someone. He was holding a knife to him. He said his son didn't like it and his son slipped forward on to the knife."
He had asked his son to hold still while he demonstrated the tribal killing.
Assistant deputy coroner Martin Milward recorded a verdict of accidental death.
