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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Rod Minchin

Coroner criticises senior care home managers over teenage girl’s death

Melissa Mathieson and her father James (Family handout/PA) - (PA Media)

“Reckless conduct at a senior manager level” allowed a teenager fascinated by necrophilia to murder an 18-year-old woman in a care home, a coroner has concluded in a scathing judgment.

Maria Voisin, the senior coroner for Avon, said there was a “catalogue of failures” that allowed Jason Conroy to strangle Melissa Mathieson at a care home in Bristol in October 2014.

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