Kathy McAteer, the chairperson of a commission investigating the circumstances of the murder, was paraphrased by Harvey Day of BBC Three as stating that the case was a "mate crime".
At age 14, she began attending a school specifically for disabled students; this was the first time that such an institution had given her an enrollment space.
[4] Both Newstead and Booth asked her to place illegal drugs in her flat and to steal items for them.
The perpetrators forced her to drink urine, and threw her body against a radiator, breaking her nose.
They instead took her to a railway embankment, where the group put a bin liner on her head, stamped on her body, and stabbed her in the back once.
[1] The Warwickshire authorities wrote a serious case review, concluding that Hayter had been at risk, and suggested that relevant agencies exchange details to prevent similar incidents from happening.