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Nikki has said the thing was that the family could see Gemma couldn't do what other kids could do but she still kept slipping through the net.

She went to a special school and then a residential school, then a residential college in Wales and in July 2004, so this is when she is 21 years old, she came home to Rugby to live on her own.

Her mum spent years fighting to get her help.

She said she felt like she was humiliating herself and she got called an attention seeker but she kept going.

And Joe's record was cannabis and he was actually in the middle of being taken back to court for breaching an order when this all happened.

Jessica had been both a victim and a perpetrator of assaults and had been cautioned.

And then Joe had this friend, Duncan Edwards, 19, and he had just moved back to Rugby from Enfield in North London to live with his mum near the flats.

He'd been known to youth offending services there since 2003, when he'd have been around about 12 years old.

Nikki has said the thing was that the family could see Gemma couldn't do what other kids could do but she still kept slipping through the net.

She went to a special school and then a residential school, then a residential college in Wales and in July 2004, so this is when she is 21 years old, she came home to Rugby to live on her own.

Her mum spent years fighting to get her help.

She said she felt like she was humiliating herself and she got called an attention seeker but she kept going.

She put up with being abused as long as the person doing it still treated her like a friend.

because jemma struggled to make friends her whole life and she wanted them more than anything she also really wanted her independence she didn't want to be treated like a child and she would tell people that put those two things together and you've got someone who'd do almost anything to keep a friend and who would push away anyone trying to look after her A couple of years before our case takes place, she wrote to the authorities asking for help with finding work.

In her words, quote, By 2010, she was living on her own in a council flat in Rugby.

She was in debt and she was facing eviction.