A ‘bubbly’ nine-year-old girl enjoyed the last day of her life dancing and eating pizza mere hours before she was allegedly stabbed to death by a teenager, a court heard.
Aria Thorpe died after being stabbed in her chest at her home in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, on December 15 last year.
A 16-year-old boy, who cannot be identified due to his age, denies charges of murder and manslaughter in relation to Aria’s death.
In a statement read to the jury at Bristol Crown Court, Aria’s mother Victoria Hull said she had helped her daughter get ready for school on the morning of December 15.
She
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