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28/09/01
- Victoria's father sobs over horrific picture
The father of Victoria Climbie has broken down in tears
after seeing a harrowing picture of her injuries. Francis
Climbie began sobbing when he saw the photograph of his
eight-year-old daughter with a tooth missing and bruising
on her face.
Speaking through an interpreter, he told the public inquiry
into her death the picture was very horrible. He added:
"She was not looking like this when she came over
to England. She had all her teeth and she was pretty.
She was a pretty girl. I feel how much my daughter was
hurt."
At that point the hearing was adjourned for a short break
so that Mr Climbie could try to compose himself. Earlier
he had spoken of how excited Victoria and the family had
been when she was given the chance by her great-aunt Marie
Therese Kouao in October 1998 to travel to Europe for
the chance of a better education.
He said that Kouao had arranged a place for Victoria at
a "fantastic school" in France and Victoria
was "very happy" to be going. Victoria went
with Kouao to France before arriving in England in the
spring 1999.
She 128 separate injuries on her body when she died in
Tottenham, north London, in February 2000. She had been
starved, beaten with coat hangers, bicycle chains, bound
naked and kept prisoner in a freezing bathroom.
She was forced to eat like a dog and had her face rammed
into her plate. In January this year Kouao, 44, and her
boyfriend Carl Manning, 28, who called the girl Anna,
were jailed for life for murder. |
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