Angela Wrightson suffered more than 100 injuries during her murder by two girls aged 13 and 14.

For two young teenagers the night of 8 December 2014 began like many others. But by the next morning they were murderers.

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An inspector was called out on Sunday to a derelict farm building near to Rodridge Cottage Farm in Wingate, County Durham, where the pony had collapsed.

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Angela Wrightson's mother, Maureen, gave a victim impact statement at the killers' court case last year.

Mr Justice Globe told the schoolgirls: "She describes the horror of seeing Angie's battered body in the mortuary.

"She does not think she will ever be able to blink those images away. Having seen photographs of what Angie looked like at that time, I readily understand why she is of that view.

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"She cannot understand how you could have been as violent as you were. She is not alone in that view.

"She had been disgusted by the laughing and giggling and sharing of photographs during the time of and immediately after the attack."

The two teenagers who murdered Angela Wrightson had been drinking and the older girl had been taking prescription drugs before they went to her Hartlepool home in December, 2014.

Last year the court heard up to six litres of cider from two bottles may have been drunk by the girls and Ms Wrightson.

The judge said the older girl said she had either taken tramadol, external and codeine, external or what was known by her as “Blues”.

Mr Justice Globe said: "You described yourselves as tipsy, but I am sure you were more than just tipsy.

"Whatever you took, I am satisfied you took it during the day and it didn’t have a significant effect upon you later on."

The two girls convicted of killing Angela Wrightson will always have their anonymity protected.

A court order has prevented the naming of the two girls, who are now both 15, since they first appeared before magistrates in 2014.

Various media organisations had asked for this order to be lifted once they were sentenced to at least 15 years, but the judge said their welfare was at risk after hearing how one of them tried to kill herself a number of times during her trial.

Mr Justice Globe said: "Each defendant poses a risk of self-harm. In one case, it is a real and present danger.

"Removing anonymity is likely to exacerbate what is already a dangerous situation.

"In circumstances where I might be satisfied that both of you were stable, strong-minded defendants convicted of serious crime, the balance might arguably have been in favour of the lifting of anonymity."

This CCTV footage shows Angela Wrightson and the two teenagers convicted of murdering her from the night of her death.

Angela Wrightson's neighbour told the BBC last year that she drank a lot, but was harmless and was "almost like the street's burglar alarm".

Speaking about the 39-year-old, who was found murdered in her home in Stephen Street, her neighbour Michael Holbeach said: "She used to sit in the doorstep most of the time.

"If I had a good pay week - I drive a truck part-time - I would go down and buy her a bottle of cider and 20 fags.

"She was almost like the street's burglar alarm in a way. If one of the slightly more troubled people was giving one of the kids a bit of a hard time she'd shoo them away, even boozed you know she was fairly responsible.

"She would hand out lollies to some of the kids when she got her pension or dole or whatever it was and she was harmless."

This picture was drawn by the older girl two weeks before Ms Wrightson was killed.

It depicts a female figure stabbing another person.

The girl said she drew it when she was "really really angry" and that she had been advised by her carers to use drawing as a way to manage her feelings.

The court was told last year it had been "a successful strategy" on previous occasions.

Details of a Dickensian cast of characters emerged in the trial of two girls who murdered Angela Wrightson.

Tens of people, including "Mad Molly", "Goofy" and "Cider Bill" would go to Ms Wrightson's home in Stephen Street in Hartlepool at all hours of the day and night.

hey 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.

This CCTV image shows the 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.

Image source, Cleveland Police

They told him they had both fallen over and began listening to rap music.

The pair are seen above 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.

Police have previously defended the fact they did not notice the two teenage girls were covered in blood when they picked them up in the early hours of the morning.

When the girls, now aged 15, called police for a lift home, having earlier been reported missing, officers did not know Angela Wrightson had been murdered, Det Ch Supt McPhillips, of Cleveland Police, said.

He said they were known to police and were regarded as vulnerable.

"It was four o'clock on a December morning, so it was dark," he said last year after their sentencing.

"The officer picked them up, their demeanour was fine, they were laughing and joking.

"There would be no particular reason for him to check their clothing to see whether it was blood-stained hence, of course, he wouldn't notice the blood."

He said it was "easy with hindsight" to think officers should have noticed one girl had a cut eye and both had blood on them.