Killed by a stranger on Mother's Day, how 7-year-old Emily Jones fell victim to a crime beyond a parent's nightmare
manchestereveningnews.co.ukrunning further down the hill in the park with her headphones on and, after asking if it was alright, the youngster set off in pursuit.Either the headphones or the distance meant Miss Barnes never heard her daughter's shouts of 'mum' as she rode the scooter along the path towards her.Neither was Mr Jones in a position to see what happened to his daughter as she rode past Skana - who was sat with her hood up on the bench.He saw Emily on the ground and initially assumed she had fallen and was being helped up by the other woman.
The full extent of what had happened would not be clear to him until people close by began to shout in horror.It was another couple, Hassan Ahmed and his wife Florentina Sciora, who saw most of what happened, the court.
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