Leticia Wright

Leticia was born on the 1st August 2002 and died on the 19 November 2006.

Ambulance staff found Leticia at her home in Almondbury Bank, Huddersfield, late on the evening of Saturday November 18 2006. She was lying naked on the living room floor covered in bruises, both old and new, and she was not breathing.

In the months preceding her death Leticia was seen standing at her bedroom window. Two neighbours were so concerned they rang the social services. Two social workers from Kirklees Council visited the house and met with Leticia and her mother but days later her file was closed.

Nicholas Campbell QC (prosecutor), said: "The cause of death was multiple injuries and they were mainly forceful blows to Leticia's head and to her abdomen."These injuries had been inflicted between two and three days before she died.""She had suffered other injuries over a longer period than that.""Whoever inflicted the fatal injuries, those to the head and to the abdomen must have intended at the very least to cause her really serious harm."

Wright and McKenzie-Seaton had moved in together at the house in Huddersfield three months before Leticia's death. Neighbours said the pair received few visitors, the windows were rarely opened and the curtains were always drawn. It appeared that there was little family life going on behind the closed curtains. One indication of that lack of family life was noticed by a number of neighbours - the amount of time that Leticia spent in her bedroom. She could be seen on most week days standing in front of the closed curtain of her window, looking out into the street below. She was seen there at morning, at lunchtime and in the late afternoon. It appeared to one of the neighbours that Leticia was always in her pyjamas. One neighbour said "Sometimes she looked sad but she often responded to the waves of those who were passing below and she smiled." Two neighbours contacted social services who discovered the girl was not registered with a local surgery or nursery. On October 13 two social workers visited the house and Wright reluctantly showed them up to Leticia's room. The little girl was found lying in her dressing gown on a bottom bunk, without any cover or bedding. Wright told the social workers she had wet the bed and the bedding was being washed. Leticia was quiet at first but became "more lively" claimed the social workers. "When asked to fetch her toys she came back with hair grabs and a pink cup" they reported. There were in fact no toys for Leticia in that house all she had was the hair grabs and pink cup to play with. The social workers claimed that she appeared to be of the appropriate size and weight for her age. Leticia was registered at the nursery the following Monday. After checking with the school that she had been registered the social services file on Leticia was closed. Leticia attended nursery for the next week but failed to turn up in the following weeks. Wright told the nursery, who phoned to ask why her daughter was no longer attending, that Leticia was ill. No one saw Leticia out of doors again, and after just one week at nursery she was soon back at her vigil at the bedroom window." Leticia was last seen standing at the window on Thursday morning, two days before her mother phoned for an ambulance.

Wright dialled 999 at 11.16pm on Saturday the 18th November 2006. She told the operator her daughter had fallen and was not breathing. The paramedic noticed many injuries in particular his eye was drawn to a large bruise in the pubic area. She was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary where doctors spent 40 minutes trying to revive her, but she was pronounced dead at 12.12am in the early hours of Sunday morning. Doctors who examined the body noted swelling to the forehead, bruising to the left eye and an area at the back of her head which felt like a "boggy mass". There were also sores and the signs of infection in her scalp.Home Office pathologist Peter Vanezis recorded the cause of death as multiple injuries. He noted the presence of multiple bruises of different ages to all parts of Leticia's body. Some were freshly inflicted within hours before death, but some could have been as much as two weeks old. Some of the fresh bruises lay over sites of earlier bruises. He detailed extensive bruising to the face and head as well as internal "blunt force" injuries. There is evidence to suggest her coming into forceful contact with a firm surface, such as a wall or a floor."The circular bruise in the pubic area, similar to a bruise on her right cheek, was consistent with a signet ring. Leticia also suffered a branding mark on the back of her left thigh, consistent with a cigarette lighter. There were two bite marks on her arms inflicted between two and four days prior to the death and later matched to McKenzie-Seaton. These injuries together with the pulling and loss of hair suggested that what happened to Leticia was not the result of a sudden loss of control, rather what happened was sustained, deliberate and brutal.

A forensic examination of the house found Leticia's blood on her clothes, the living room wall and a pair of fur-lined handcuffs retrieved from the kitchen. Clumps of the girls hair were found outside in the wheelie bin, along with 16 roach ends, consistent with the use of cannabis. A heartbreaking story of another little girl who died a cruel, painful and lonely death. A little girl who should have been at school enjoying playing and having fun, not looking out of a bedroom window watching the world pass her by.

RIP Leticia your safe from harm now. You have lots of other special little angels to play with.