Catalogue of failures led to woman’s murder in Bristol care home, coroner finds

Mathieson’s father, James, said his daughter ‘was a wonderful, warm person with an infectious personality that lightened any room she entered’. Photograph: Avon and Somerset police/PA Media

A “catalogue of failures” resulted in the murder of a vulnerable young woman who was strangled to death in a care home by a fellow resident with a history of sexual violence, a coroner has concluded.

Senior managers at the care home in Bristol where Melissa Mathieson, 18, died were described as “reckless” by the coroner for not effectively supervising her killer, Jason Conroy.