[5] On the afternoon of 8 December 2014, Wrightson was visited by her landlord at her Stephen Street home and was argumentative and violent, throwing her keys at him multiple times.
The CCTV images showed that Wrightson had no significant injuries at this time; she returned to Stephen Street at approximately 19:30.
[2] At some point after this, likely soon after,[2] the girls began subjecting Wrightson to a prolonged[a] beating using weapons such as a shovel, an 18-inch (460 mm) wooden batten driven with screws, and a CRT television.
[2][13] En route home with the police, the girls posed for a Snapchat photograph with the caption "in the back [of] the bizzie van again".
[18] The 2017 serious case review reported that the mother of the elder girl was concerned that she was "going to parties, possibly having sexual intercourse" as well as physically assaulting her younger siblings.
[16] On 9 December, the elder girl spoke to youth workers and expressed an interest in Wrightson's death as well as prison sentences for murder.
[19][20] Globe described "an avalanche of prejudicial comment", and the BBC retrospectively described how Justice Globe effectively "ordered media outlets to remove every comment about the trial from any news article and social media post", remove outbound hyperlinks from their websites, and "refrain from issuing or forwarding tweets relating to the trial".
[21] The same month, the second trial began at Leeds Crown Court; both girls denied murder but the elder admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
[3] The High Court ruled on 4 February 2021 that both perpetrators should have lifetime anonymity to prevent jeopardising their continued rehabilitation and the risk of self-harm if their identities were revealed.