Updates on Tuesday 5 April 2016.
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It has been a day which saw two young girls convicted of the brutal murder of a vulnerable woman in her Hartlepool home.
You can read a profile of her tragic life here.
The girls, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will be sentenced on Thursday.
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Angela Wrightson preferred prison to being "on the out", according to Donna Jenkins, who met her in jail.
"Angie was a lost soul who found life easier inside. She'd become largely institutionalised," she said.
Her position as laundrywoman was "the first time she had felt valued", Ms Jenkins added.
Upon her last release from prison in 2011, Ms Wrightson, originally from Darlington, moved to Hartlepool for a fresh start.
Ms Jenkins says "it was the happiest time of Angie's life". She had a boyfriend, and became friendly with some local dog owners.
Then her boyfriend died from alcohol related problems, leaving her "heartbroken". From that point, her condition worsened and people began using her home, the trial heard, as a "doss house".
It was to end with her tragic death at the hands of two young girls.
Here's how the local papers are reporting the conviction of two schoolgirls for violently murdering Angela Wrightson in Hartlepool:
This is the "police taxi" two convicted schoolgirl murderers used to take them home after brutally attacking Angela Wrightson.
Image source, Cleveland PoliceThey got officers to give them a lift at 04:00 on the night of the murder as they complained they were "freezing".
Ms Wrightson, 39, was later found in her living room with more than 100 injuries - including 80 to her face - in Hartlepool in December 2014.
Tens of people, including "Mad Molly", "Goofy" and "Cider Bill" would go to Ms Wrightson's home in Stephen Street at all hours of the day and night. They would not bother knocking.
Groups of youths started dropping by first thing in the morning so she could buy them cigarettes. Underage drinkers congregated in her living room and on the proviso she could share their drink, she would buy them alcohol from the local shop - where three-litre bottles of 7.5% cider can be bought for about £3.
Sometimes she called a neighbour "to make the kids scatter" when they ignored her pleas to leave.
Two 15-year-old girls have been found guilty of murdering a woman in her own home.
The attack was described in court as "sustained and brutal".
Angela Wrightson was found with more than 100 injuries in the living room of her house, in Hartlepool, in December 2014.
Fiona Trott reports:
Two 15-year-old girls guilty of murder
This CCTV image shows two schoolgirl murderers walking back to Angela Wrightson's house after attacking her in December 2014.
They had left the house in Hartlepool for "time out" at about 23:00, during which time they went to see a friend, who asked them why they were covered in blood.
They told him they had both fallen over and began listening to rap music.
The pair, who were convicted today, are seen below at 02:00 going back to the Stephen Street property. They stayed for a further two hours before calling the police to take them home.
Image source, Cleveland PoliceBethan Bell
BBC News Online
Angela Wrightson had a difficult background.
She and her eight siblings were all brought up separately in care, and she remained estranged from her family.
Only after she died did her mother and aunt reappear into her world, occasionally attending the trial.
A post-mortem examination found evidence of early self-harming and cirrhosis of the liver.
She was covered in home-made tattoos, including a cross on her face.
One of the last images of Angela Wrightson before she was murdered has been released by police.
The trial heard the two girls who killed her had visited Ms Wrightson, an alcoholic known as "Alco Ange", on a number of occasions because she would buy them alcohol and cigarettes.
This is Angela at a shop on the day she died:
Image source, Cleveland PoliceTwo girls carried out a "brutal and sustained" attack on Angela Wrightson and then laughed about it afterwards, prosecutors say.
Gerry Wareham, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "In our society it is hard to imagine that two girls of such a young age could be capable of such violence.
"The attack that the girls committed against Angela Wrightson was brutal and sustained. One can only imagine the fear and distress that she must have felt in the final hours of her life.
"Given the severity of their assault on Miss Wrightson, one would expect the girls to have shown a degree of remorse in the wake of her death.
"Instead, they laughed and smiled while posing for a "selfie", with each continuing to deny that they had murdered her throughout the investigation and prosecution of this case."
The pair, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will be sentenced on Thursday.
Angela Wrightson's family have thanked the police and the prosecution team for their "compassion and support", and for those who gave evidence on her behalf in court.
The statement, issued after the verdict, added: "If any positive can be taken from this experience it is the kindness displayed by those who knew Angie best.
"Angie's infectious personality touched the hearts of so many people and it is those fond memories which we continue to cherish as we attempt to move forward."
The two girls convicted of murdering Angela Wrightson in Hartlepool tried to shift blame on to each other during their trial.
The older girl accepted she struck the victim but said she did not intend her serious harm and accused her accomplice, telling the jury her younger friend told her to carry out the attack.
But the younger of the two said she played no part in the assault and did not encourage her friend in any way.
She told police her friend became angry and launched the attack after Miss Wrightson made a comment about her family.
This TV was used to smash Ms Wrightson over her head during the attack.
Image source, Cleveland PoliceQuestions still remain about the motive behind Angela Wrightson's killing, police say.
Det Ch Supt Peter McPhillips said: "This was a highly unusual and shocking incident. Throughout almost 25 years of service I have never come across such a brutal murder committed by such young girls.
"Angela was subjected to a prolonged, sustained attack and the pathologist identified a significant number of injuries to her body caused by at least 25 blows with weapons."
The weapons included this shovel:
Image source, Cleveland PoliceFollowing the guilty verdict, the Wrightson family said in a statement: "It's true that Angela (or Angie as she was known to us all) led a troubled and at times chaotic lifestyle.
"And as a family we were not as close as we ought to have been. The chance to put that right has been taken away from us."
It went on to say: "The two girls responsible will one day be women themselves, free to live their lives and perhaps have children of their own. A right which was taken from Angie."
Bethan Bell
BBC News Online
In many ways Angela Wrightson fitted the stereotype of a typical victim - an alcohol-dependent female attacked in her own home by people she knew.
It's a profile which often triggers criticism of agencies - she was a vulnerable woman left to struggle alone, forgotten by authorities and dismissed as an aggressive drunk who had never worked.
But this was not the case. She was in regular contact with agencies in Hartlepool, and offered frequent help and support.
Hartlepool Council, whose social services department was involved with Angela Wrightson and her two teenage murderers, said reviews are under way.
Council chief executive Gill Alexander said: "The two children were receiving services from the council and other agencies, but until the ongoing serious case reviews are concluded, it would not be appropriate to comment on the circumstances of the children at this time.
"Incidents like this are extremely rare, but we need to do everything possible to try to better understand what motivated the two children to behave as they did.
"Given the exceptional circumstances of this case, the Serious Case Reviews and the Safeguarding Adult Review will be seeking the help of national experts and national research in this field, to ensure that everyone can learn from this case to help prevent similar tragedies in the future."
She also offered her "deepest sympathy" to Ms Wrightson's family and said her death has "touched the hearts of many people in Hartlepool".
Angela Wrightson's family has described the murder trail as a "harrowing experience".
A number of weapons had been used in the attack, including a piece of wood with screws attached.
Image source, Durham PoliceThe family said in a statement: "Angie was attacked and brutally murdered in her own home, a place where we all have the right to feel safe.
"Listening to the details of her injuries and of her final moments has been a harrowing experience and something which will continue to haunt us each and every day.
"No sentence, regardless of its severity, will ever bring Angie back."
The scene where Angela Wrightson was murdered was horrific and shocked police officers who found her body.
Ms Wrightson was found dead in her living room in Hartlepool with more than a hundred wounds.
The court had heard the girls used a variety of weapons, including a coffee table and a computer printer, to carry out the "sustained and brutal" attack for more than three hours.
Det Ch Supt Peter McPhillips from Cleveland Police said: "I've never come across a crime that's been as terrible as this.
"I can't imagine that any of my officers have. And the girls just don't seem to understand that, they've never shown any remorse and hopefully, one day they will."
The two teenagers found guilty of murdering Angela Wrightson had been drinking and the older girl had been taking prescription drugs before they went to her Hartlepool home in December, 2014.
The girls, now 15 but aged 13 and 14 at the time, had visited Ms Wrightson before as she would buy them alcohol and cigarettes.
On the night of her death they let themselves into her home and asked Ms Wrightson to go to the shop for them.
Their accounts to the court of what happened next differed, but the jury heard that Miss Wrightson, who was 5ft 4in and weighed six-and-a-half stone, was assaulted in 12 separate locations around the living room in an attack that took place over five hours.
The brutality of the teenage murderers of Angela Wrightson was highlighted in court.
Ms Wrightson, 39, was found by her landlord in her blood-spattered home in Hartlepool in December 2014.
Two girls, aged 13 and 14 at the time of her death, have been convicted of murder today.
The older girl's care worker told Leeds Crown Court that, the morning after Ms Wrightson died, the girl asked her: "How do you think it feels to kill someone? Do you think you'd feel empty? Do you think you'd feel bad?".
She later asked: "How long do you get for murder?"