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Read the BBC headline and what would it imply to you? Innocent?

Emily Jones: Bolton child's killer cleared of murder

'A woman who slit a seven-year-old's throat has been cleared of murder after the prosecution offered no
further evidence and withdrew the charge. Eltiona Skana, 30, had admitted the manslaughter of Emily
Jones on the grounds of diminished responsibility.


Emily Jones.

Skana, who has paranoid schizophrenia, had been on trial at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court
after pleading not guilty to murder. Mr Justice Wall will sentence Skana for manslaughter on Tuesday.

The jury had been directed to formally return a not guilty verdict.

After hearing evidence from a consultant forensic psychiatrist treating Skana at high-security Rampton
Hospital, Michael Brady QC, prosecuting, told the court there was no realistic prospect of a conviction
on the murder charge.

Riding scooter
The court heard how Emily was in Queen's Park in Bolton with her father Mark Jones on the afternoon
of Mother's Day on 22 March. She was riding her scooter when she spotted her mother Sarah Barnes,
who was jogging.

The youngster was calling out to her mother as she scooted past a park bench where Skana was sitting,
alone and armed with a craft knife. Skana got up, grabbed Emily and slit her throat before running off.
The defendant, originally from Albania, was later detained under the Mental Health Act.

During the trial, the prosecution alleged that it was for the jury to decide whether this was a case of murder
rather than manslaughter and questioned whether Skana's poor mental health was a "convenient excuse"
for her actions.

The court heard about a conversation between Skana and a nurse while in Rampton, which pointed to the
attack being planned and therefore a calculated killing rather than manslaughter. But the jury was also told
the conversation took place when Skana was not taking her anti-psychotic medication as part of a change
in treatment at the hospital.

Dr Victoria Sullivan, who treated Skana at a medium secure mental health unit in Manchester after her
arrest, said the defendant's sister Klestora told them she had not been taking her anti-psychotic medication
before the attack.

Skana came to the UK in 2014 and had been having injections of anti-psychotic drugs each month since
2017, the court heard. But she also told medics this medication had caused her mental health to deteriorate
and she began taking tablets instead.

When police raided her flat in Bolton, they found a stash of untaken, anti-psychotic drugs, which amounted
to around a month's worth of medication. From mid-December of last year until March 11, the defendant had
no face-to-face contact with her mental health workers, the jury heard.

Earlier, in 2017, Skana had stabbed her own mother and in another incident attacked her sister and had been
admitted to psychiatric hospitals three times. Dr Syed Afghan, her consultant at Rampton, agreed Skana became
psychotically violent when not taking her medication...'

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I need to stop reading this thread. I leave this thread to stronger ones. Just look at that girl! So super cute! And a whole life ahead of her! And now she is not here anymore. I reject this reality.