Jenny Friel
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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She was Siberian.
She was five foot eight.
She had a tumor had been found in her ear when she was a child.
So she was deaf in that ear.
She struggled to make friends.
All she wanted was friends.
You know, your heart kind of like when you read some of those details about, you know, how they had hoped that
that she would fit in and that she was very close to her cousins but hadn't really had a lot of other friends otherwise and that she was very vulnerable.
And as you mentioned before, her primary school teachers were, you know, one of them said that they were terrified about her starting secondary school because they knew how vulnerable she was.
And it's almost like people can smell that
Can't they?
Yeah.
She also loved dancing.
She was described as, you know, she had a lot of...
She was on the cusp of, I suppose, like, you know, becoming an adult as well.
And there were, you know, all that kind of evidence that came out in that trial.
Some of it was, you know, a little uncomfortable, I imagine, for her parents to have listened to.
And yet none of it was, you know, unusual for a teenage girl.
She's 14, you know, everyone's kind of, you know, getting to grips with who they are at that stage.
So I suppose just that, and I know Patrick has died since, hasn't he?