A woman who stabbed a friend and threw a kettle of boiling water over her has been jailed for three years. Princess Owusu Ansah, 18, launched the crazed attack on a woman as she believed she was cheating with her boyfriend.
21.04.2023 - 16:21 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The father of a schoolgirl who was stabbed to death in a park has spoken of his "disappointment" and "concern" over the upcoming inquest into her death.
Emily Jones, 7, was knifed to death as she rode through Queens Park in Bolton on her scooter on Mother's Day 2020. Eltiona Skana, then 30, slit the little girl's throat with a craft knife she had bought from a pound shop on that fateful day on March 22.
Skana, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, was convicted of manslaughter, by means of diminished responsibility, and was sentenced to life in prison. She must serve a minimum term of 10 years and eight months. She was also made subject to a hospital order.
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She will be sent to prison once doctors decide she is in an appropriate state, if this never happens she will remain in hospital indefinitely. An appeal to have her sentence reduced was later rejected by the Court of Appeal.
In December 2021 a coroner ruled an inquest should be held into her death but that it would not be held until the full circumstances of 'how a psychologically disordered individual came to be in the community and how the risk to the community was assessed and managed' were known.
The final hearing, expected to last several days, is set to begin on May 2 - more than three years on from Emily's death.
Emily's father Mark Jones spoke of his "frustration" over the inquest process at a hearing last month. At a further pre-inquest review today (Friday), he shared similar concerns, telling a coroner he was "concerned" and "disappointed" by the process.
Speaking following a series of lengthy legal discussions, he said: "Sitting through the criminal
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