Angela Wrightson murder sentencing

Following Angela Wrightson's murder, independent reviews are being undertaken by the Teesside Safeguarding Adults Board regarding Angela Wrightson and the Hartlepool Safeguarding Children Board regarding the two teenagers.

Both Boards have commissioned the reviews on behalf of all of the agencies involved.

The purpose of the serious case reviews is to determine whether the actions taken by the teenagers, leading to Angela's murder, could have been prevented by the agencies who were involved with Angela and the teenagers.

Speaking of Deborah Jeremiah who is leading the review, Ann Baxter, Chair of the Teesside Safeguarding Adult Board, said they need to consider "all circumstances" leading up to Angela Wrightson's murder.

In the sentencing of two teenage girls for the murder of Angela Wrightson, Judge Mr Justice Globe referred to an "emotional letter" from Angela's mother.

He said: "She (Angela's mother) will never be able to blink away the horrifying image of her daughter's battered body when she saw her in the mortuary. She cannot understand how you could have been as violent as you were. She's not alone in that."

Judge Mr Justice Globe said the girls' attack included "gratuitous degradation" as they published photographs online and trashed Angela Wrightson's house.

It follows their sentencing today for the murder of the 39-year-old in her home in Hartlepool.

Psychologist Emma Kenny says the Angela Wrightson case is "tragic for all involved" because the 15-year-old girls did not understand the consequences of their actions.

It follows the sentencing today.

Following the sentencing of two teenage girls for the murder of Angela Wrightson, Dawn McManus, a charity manager at Red Dreams, says the girls "made the wrong choices". Dawn, who works with young people in Hartlepool, also says situations like this "can spiral for anyone":

Two teenage girls who murdered Angela Wrightson by battering her to death with household objects in a five-hour ordeal have been sentenced to life with a minimum of 15 years

Two teenage girls have been found guilty of the murder of Hartlepool woman Angela Wrightson.

Ms Wrightson was 39 when she was found dead in her home in Stephen Street in December 2014, with more than 100 injuries, after becoming the victim of what was described as a 'brutal and sustained assault.'

She was attacked with a number of weapons, including a television, shovel, a computer printer, and a piece of wood with screws protruding.

The girls, who were 13 and 14 at the time and are now both 15, often went to Angela's house to get her to buy them cigarettes and alcohol. There was no apparent motive.

The girls cannot be named for legal reasons. They were both in tears as the verdicts were delivered at Leeds Crown Court.