The review was carried out by safeguarding children partnerships in Birmingham, where the girl had lived most of her life, and West Sussex, where the family had moved to only months before the fatal incident in October 2020.
The review’s report details how her violent behaviour was identified at her primary school, including having “no compassion or remorse” for upsetting or hurting people and “going on a revenge mission” against those who “did something to her”.
But while her school called for a special educational needs and disabilities assessment “there was no consideration that her behaviour might be as a result of trauma”.
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