Eleanor Neale

But eventually she did it, she was a very brave girl and this mental health support worker noted on Anna's file that they were really concerned about her inability to make friends.

They could see how much that was having an effect on Anna, her happiness, her whole life was affected by her lack of friends.

In fact, Anna Creasal's only friends were her cousins.

She didn't have any friends in school or

Well, I mean, she had certain people that she would talk to, but no one that she could actually call a friend.

Her father said that when he would go and pick Anna up from school, he would see all these other groups of girls walking out of school, talking, joking, laughing together, and then there would be Anna walking alone with her earphones in, just looking down at the ground.

She wasn't talking to anyone.

Her father said that he thought the other kids just didn't understand Anna.

They thought that she was a weirdo.

That's a genuine quote.

They called her that and that's not me calling her that.

But she wasn't.

She had a heart of gold.

She was just such a nice, lovely person.

She loved to perform.

She loved to entertain.

She was...

Cool, she was a cool girl, but none of them could see that because they never even gave her a chance.

She was misunderstood, she wasn't weird, she just struggled to socialise, and none of the kids gave her a chance, really.

On May 14th, 2018, Anna Creasal had school as normal, however, in the afternoon, she actually had a counselling session, one of these therapy sessions that her mum set her up, and so she was gonna have to leave school early.