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Thomas George & John-Paul Clark

Dad calls for system change after young daughter had throat cut by stranger in park

Little Emily Jones was only seven-years-old when she was brutally killed in the most horrific way imaginable for any parent.

It happened on the day before the UK was plunged into the first Covid-19 lockdown, on March 22, 2020, and Emily's dad Mark had taken his daughter to Bolton, where they had arranged to meet her mother.

But as Emily was racing along a park in her scooter a woman leapt from a bench and cut her throat, reports Manchester Evening News. The killing shocked the nation and Mark and his family's lives have been shattered forever.

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