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Failings revealed over girls' Angela Wrightson torture-murder Failings revealed over girls' Angela Wrightson torture-murder
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Multiple failures have been uncovered in reports into the torture and murder of a vulnerable woman by two schoolgirls. Two girls who murdered a vulnerable alcoholic were known to social services for running away, drinking and being sexually active, a review has found.
The girls, then 13 and 14, murdered Angela Wrightson, 39, in a seven-hour attack in Hartlepool in 2014. Angela Wrightson, 39, was subjected to a seven-hour attack in her Hartlepool home by the pair, then aged 13 and 14.
The reports tell of "overly optimistic" care services, a failure to address poor parenting and an "insufficient understanding" of neglect. Serious case reviews revealed multiple failures by officials but concluded the murder could not have been prevented.
The girls were jailed for a minimum of 15 years in April last year. However, they found the girls' parents were unwilling to accept help to address their daughters' behaviour.
Ms Wrightson was beaten with a shovel, a TV, a coffee table and a stick studded with screws during the attack in 2014.
Both girls were jailed for a minimum of 15 years in April last year.
The three reports tell of "overly optimistic" care services, a failure to address poor parenting and an "insufficient understanding" of neglect.
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The reports found the youngest of the two girls, referred to as Yasmine, was subjected to physical and emotional abuse by her parents.
But they concluded officials were too ready to accepted her mother's claims she was disruptive because she had been "spoilt".
Report writers said the older girl, referred to as Olivia, had a chaotic home life and was placed into care after her mother claimed she was "going to parties, possibly having sexual intercourse and hitting" younger siblings.
'Inability to care'
Two months before the murder, she was arrested for assaulting three members of staff and causing damage to the premises.
The reports into both teenagers found their parents were quick to criticise their daughters' behaviour, but unwilling to accept help to improve their parenting.
About the younger girl's parents, the report stated: "They blamed Yasmine for their inability to be warm and caring to her."
Of the older girl, it said: "When the reviewer visited Olivia in prison, she expressed her feelings that she had always been held responsible for the family problems, both by her parents and, she felt, by professionals."