15-year-old girls sentenced to life with a minimum term of 15 years each for Angela Wrightson murder

Two teenage girls who murdered a 39-year-old woman by battering her to death with household objects in a five-hour ordeal have been sentenced to life, with a minimum term of 15 years each.

The girls, who cannot be named, were 13 and 14 when they attacked Angela Wrightson in the lounge of her home in Hartlepool, using weapons including a shovel, a TV, a coffee table and a stick studded with screws.

They left Miss Wrightson with more than 100 injuries on her body.

During the attack, the pair took selfies of themselves and posted a picture on social media taken in the police van after the incident.

The girls, who are now both 15, were in tears in the dock after they were convicted at Leeds Crown Court on Tuesday.