'Daddy, I want to go to mum' - Parents of Emily Jones still hunt for answers three years on from schoolgirl's killing
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe parents of a schoolgirl who was killed in a horrific attack in a park on Mother's Day have demanded answers as an inquest into her death gets under way.
Emily Jones, 7, was stabbed to death as she rode through Queens Park in Bolton on her scooter on March 22, 2020. Eltiona Skana, then 30, slit the little girl's throat with a craft knife she had bought from a pound shop earlier that day.
More than three years on from the Mother's Day killing, an inquest into Emily's death has started at Bolton Coroner's Court.
On its opening day today (Tuesday), her parents recalled the horrifying events of the day their daughter was killed. READ MORE: The drug gang 'feud' that saw houses and car set ablaze in single hour of destruction as nine arrested Mark Jones, Emily's father, said he had taken his daughter to the park so she could ride her scooter and meet her mother, Sarah Barnes, who was out jogging.
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