The girls were 13 and 14 when they attacked 39-year-old Angela Wrightson in her Hartlepool home in December 2014. The attack lasted around seven hours, during which time she was hit with a shovel, a TV, and a coffee table.
Both girls were jailed for a minimum of 15 years in April 2016, but were not named at the time because of their age. An interim injunction was later granted, extending that anonymity after they turned 18.
Last week the indefinite ban on naming the women, F and D, who are both now adults, was upheld by the High Court.
In delivering her judgment, Mrs Justice Tipples said there was a “real and immediate risk” of suicide or self-harm for F, if her identity was revealed, due to her extensive history of mental health problems.
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