Gameplan

It's almost a year ago since 16 year old Mary-Ann Leneghan was murdered, but details are finally being made public of the horrific way in which she was killed.

She and an 18 year old friend were suspected of stealing drugs by a gang of men who came up with a gameplan of revenge that included abduction, torture and rape before killing the two girls.

Most of this was carried out in a hotel room that the six men had booked for that purpose:

Richard Latham QC told the jury that on the night of 6 May last year Mary-Ann and her 18-year-old friend were sitting in a car in the car park of the Wallingford Arms pub in Reading when they were abducted.

He said the two girls were bundled into the boot of a red Nissan Almera and driven to the Abbey guesthouse in Reading where the men booked into a room.

He said: "For the next few hours they were seriously assaulted, they were raped, they were made to smoke heroin and crack cocaine and most seriously of all they were told throughout that they were going to die that night when the men had finished with them."

He told the court the girls were then taken to Prospect Park where a pillow was placed over Mary-Ann's head before she was repeatedly stabbed to death.

He said a pillow was also placed over her friend's head.

The 18 year old was then shot in the head and left for dead. She survived hence the subsequent investigation arrest and trial...

All six are pleading not guilty. The only footage of the trial the BBC showed this evening was of Mary-Ann's father taking a breath of fresh air outside the court after sitting only a few feet away from the men charged with his daughter's murder.

Mary-Ann 'was killed in revenge' - BBC