'I don't feel like I have got closure.'
It was Mother's Day, the day before the UK was plunged into its first coronavirus lockdown, and Emily's dad Mark had taken his daughter to Queens Park, in Bolton, to meet her mother.
"But it wasn't me that did it. There was no threat as far as I could see. There was no one there, just a lone lady sitting on a bench. I thought she posed no threat whatsoever." The unimaginable horror of what had happened only became clear to Mark when people nearby began to shout in horror as the hooded figure ran off through the park.
Earlier this week, a coroner ruled that mental health services could not have predicted or prevented Skana's actions. Victoria Fagan, Skana's care co-ordinator, was not consulted about the change and said she disagreed with the move as it would have made it harder to monitor whether Skana was taking her medication.
More than three years on, Mr Jones is still struggling to come to terms with the brutal nature of his daughter's death. Paying tribute to Emily, a pupil at Markland Hill Primary School, Mr Jones said: "All parents say their children are amazing but she was an amazing little character, who was so full of life."She loving socialising and was a lovely, outgoing girl who was full of fun. She loved music and dance."It's just a huge hole in all our lives. She would have gone on to do some really good things.
Mr Jones said that while he is 'glad' the inquest is over, he was left 'baffled' by the coroner's findings. During both the inquest and the criminal trial, Mark was forced to relive the terrible circumstances of his daughter's death. He says he has found the 'contradictory' evidence given by various psychiatric experts regarding Skana's mental state as particularly 'distressing'.
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