[32] He referred the case to Dr Ekundayo Ajayi-Obe, the on-call paediatric registrar. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. After months of torment, sexual assault, malnutrition and torture, she died at the hands of her heartless and brutal guardians - aged just eight-years-old. Despite the best efforts of doctors and being transferred to an intensive ward at St Mary's Hospital, in west London, Victoria died at 3.15pm on February 25, 2000. [5] By December 1998, however, Kouao began to receive warnings about Victorias absenteeism, and in February 1999, the school issued a child-at-risk notification and a social worker became involved. The criminal court and the inquiry have already been told that Victoria was savagely beaten with a bicycle chain and a hammer. A public inquiry named the council's social worker, Lisa Arthurworrey and PC Karen Jones as the people who were responsible for investigating her living situation. Although Winter was shown Victorias passport (with a photograph of Anna), she paid no attention to them, believing that Kouao's application was ineligible on the grounds of habitual residence. Social workers knew of concerns, but simply sent her back to Brent council. Carl Manning was sentenced to lifetime imprisonment in HMP Wakefield in 2001, Victoria's short, tragic life had vital implications for the investigation of child abuse. "[171], DMM developer Patricia Crittenden commented that while the Laming report pointed out that tell-tale signs had been missed, the signs were present and noticed but their meaning was not understood. [67][68], The inquiry was launched on 31 May 2001,[69] and was split into two phases. She smelled of bleach. They prayed for her recovery. Victoria's biography Victoria was born near Abidjan in the Ivory Coast on November 1991, the fifth of seven children. Pictures showing burn marks on the child's face - among 128 injuries found on her body - were 'fakes', she maintained, and it was the doctors who had killed her with poor medical practices. 'People are there to put everything on me to make me become a monster. Aged seven-years-old, Victoria first moved to Acton in west London before temporarily staying in a north London hostel with Kouao who took up a hospital cleaning job. Alan Hodges, the police sergeant overseeing the investigation, claimed in the inquiry that the social workers were obstructing the police in dealing with child protection cases. 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A week later, on 25 February 2000, they closed the caseon the same day that Victoria died.[16]. Neil Garnham QC, counsel to the inquiry following Victorias death, later said to her, "there is a terrible danger hereis there not, doctorof social services on the one hand and you on the other each expecting the other to do the investigation, with the result that nobody does". Alarmingly, just 10 days later Victoria was taken to the same hospital. It was highly likely that at least some of the injuries were the result of deliberate physical harm. SELECT OPTIONS SAVE TO CART DETAILS Restrictions: Three rows behind her, Mr and Mrs Climbie simply watched. She suffered scalding on her head and face and despite doctors voicing concerns that such injuries were deliberate, Ms Arthurworrey and PC Jones accepted Kouao's excuse that she poured hot water on the little girl to stop her scratching her scalp. Officers told Mr Climbi that Victoria was dead and Kouao was under arrest for her murder. how although Kouao had kept saying, "my baby, and-emergency department at North Middlesex Hospital; she [62] It was the first inquiry to be set up by two secretaries of state. Asked why the little girl had nothing in her stomach when examined by doctors on the Friday she died, Kouao claimed she had refused to eat. 11. 9. [113] A detective inspector supervising six child protection teams in London at the time of Climbi's death wrote a report criticising their competence. Murderpedia has thousands of hours of work behind it. Only pressure from the opposition and local press got the decision reversed. Kitchman said in the inquiry that she contacted Arthurworrey, but Arthurworrey denied this. The key social worker in the case, Lisa Arthurworrey, was dismissed by Haringey Council along with her manager, Angella Mairs, the following year. 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