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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Helen Pidd North of England editor

‘I don’t blame her’: meeting of Esther Ghey and Emma Sutton shows power of restorative justice

Esther Ghey
‘It was a positive and respectful meeting,’ said Esther Ghey. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

In an anonymous office on a business park in Warrington, two mothers met last week for the first time. Esther Ghey and Emma Sutton sat down together for what one restorative justice expert called the most “extraordinarily unusual” meeting he had heard of in 30 years.

Ghey’s 16-year-old daughter, Brianna, was murdered in a Warrington park last year by two teenagers, one of whom she thought was her friend. That friend was Scarlett Jenkinson, Sutton’s daughter, the “driving force” behind planning and executing the “exceptionally brutal” stabbing.

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