Two teenage killers who murdered a vulnerable alcoholic in her own home will have their identities kept secret for life after a High Court judge ruled that naming them would cause the pair “very serious harm”. The girls were aged 13 and 14 when they put 39-year-old Angela Wrightson through a five-hour ordeal in her own home in 2014, while also posing for Snapchat selfies. In a judgment published on Thursday, Mrs Justice Tipples granted the pair lifelong anonymity, an order that has previously been made in only a handful of cases in these circumstances, including that of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, the killers of toddler James Bulger, and Britain s youngest terrorist from Blackburn, known only as RXG, who instructed an Australian jihadist to launch attacks on Anzac Day in 2015.
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Eleven Awards Designated for Honoring the Preservation of African-American History, Dutch Architecture, Carnegie Libraries, and Statewide Historic Preservation Advocacy Groups
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that eleven projects preserving state history, ranging from an eighteenth-century Dutch barn rehabilitation to an artist installation memorializing black lives at John Brown Farm State Historic Site, have received 2020 State Historic Preservation Awards. Created in 1980, the State Historic Preservation Awards are awarded by the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation each year to honor excellence in the protection and revitalization of historic and cultural resources. The Governor also signed legislation in 2013 to bolster state use of rehabilitation tax credits, which have spurred billions of dollars in completed investments of historic commercial properties and tens of millions in owner-occupied historic
Teenage Snapchat killers are granted lifelong anonymity
The pair, were aged just 13 and 14, when they posed for Snapchat selfies while beating 39-year-old Angela Wrightson to death in 2014.
Angela Wrightson was murdered by the teenagers in 2014
Two teenage girls who tortured and murdered a vulnerable alcoholic have won a High Court bid to keep their identities secret in what is just the sixth ruling of its kind ever handed down.
They were jailed for life in 2016 but because of their ages could not be publicly identified during or after the trial.
That injunction had been due to expire once they turned 18, but a judge has now added them to an exclusive list of notorious child criminals who will enjoy lifelong anonymity.
Angela Wrightson (Cleveland Police/PA)
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Two teenage killers who murdered a vulnerable alcoholic in her own home will have their identities kept secret for life after a High Court judge ruled that naming them would cause the pair “very serious harm”.
The girls were aged 13 and 14 when they put 39-year-old Angela Wrightson through a five-hour ordeal in Hartlepool in 2014, while posing for Snapchat selfies.
Two teenage girls given lifelong anonymity after murdering vulnerable alcoholic in her own home
The girls were aged 13 and 14 when they killed 39-year-old Angela Wrightson
18:18, 4 FEB 2021
Angela Wrightson, who was killed by two teenage girls in her own home (Image: Cleveland Police)
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