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The inquest into the death of Amber Peat started on Monday 28 Jan 2019.
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Day 1
A schoolgirl who was found hanged after a family argument was only reported missing to police by her parents nearly eight hours after she stormed out, an inquest heard.
Amber Peat's body was found three days after she went missing from her home after a row with her mother over household chores.
Nottingham Coroner's Court heard the argument was about cleaning a cool box which was used to store food on a recent family holiday in Cornwall - where the 13-year-old had hatched plans to run away with her cousin.
The youngster's mother Kelly Peat had heard the front door "slam shut" shortly after the dispute at around 5.10pm on May 30, 2015, at the home on Bosworth Street in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
The inquest heard a passer-by had seen somebody of Amber's description enter a hedgerow area near the address around 40 minutes later.
Although up to 400 police staff were involved in the search for Amber, her body was only recovered on June 2.
Tragic schoolgirl, 13, found dead hours after family argument
Day 2
Keeley Vardy, her former Year 6 teacher, said that when Amber suddenly arrived in April 2013, she had no information from her previous school.
Then aged 11, the girl was "quite sullen" on her first day.
Miss Vardy told the court that when the newcomer was asked to work on an autobiographical project focussing on part of her life, she replied: "I haven't got anything happy to write about."
However she eventually wrote about her grandma.
Girl, 13, had nothing 'happy to write about' two years before found hanged
"She was worried about going home because she had lost the belt off her coat," Mrs Holland told Nottinghamshire Coroner's Court.
"She basically said she was scared she was going to get told off. I had to phone home and tell mum, 'It really is fine, we will find it'."
Hanged girl, 13, 'scared' to go home
Day 3
An inquest in Nottingham heard that Amber’s GP had raised concerns about her behaviour, in January 2014, because she had run away from home, was performing poorly at school in Tibshelf, and she had a new stepdad with mental health issues.
Joanne Robinson, manager of the Tibshelf Multi-Agency Team (MAT) in Derbyshire, said two workers visited the family after Amber went missing in January 2014.
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Concerns were again raised, on March 7, 2014, when Amber reported being left at home to wash up while her parents went out, and, escaping through a window, she ran away from home.
She told the youth worker that her parents had told her: “What goes on in this house stays in this house.”
The assistant coroner asked: “Would you follow it up with the parents?” “A lot of this is confidential between the child and the youth worker,” said Mrs Robinson.
“There is no note in the records about that specific point.” “You seem to say a lot “There should have been a note of that but there isn’t,”” said Miss Bower.
“Is that acceptable practice?” Mrs Robinson said: “We were very much in our infancy when we were first formed. It just wasn’t recorded. There were lots of other conversations.
We were working with Amber to help her with coping strategies. A lot of children say things when they are up and down. We wouldn’t go back to mum every time Amber said something.”
Read more at: Concerns about tragic Amber Peat raised more than a year before her death
Today's sitting revealed:
- Amber had previously ran away but her parents had been too busy to look for her as their 'dog was in labour'
- Amber had seen a doctor several times with her mother Kelly, in regards to her relationship with her stepfather Danny Peat
- It was also revealed that Mr Peat is said to have had mental health issues
- On the night that Amber vanished she had been arguing with her stepfather
- The family had previously visited Daniel Peat's mother, and while at the house amber was made to sit in the corner and not speak to anyone
Schoolgirl, 13, who hanged herself after fleeing home was 'lively' in lessons | Daily Mail Online
Day 4
Amber Peat, who was 13 when she died, had also moved house 11 times during her childhood, it was said.
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At the time, Amber was a pupil of Tibshelf Community School. Soon after she moved to Queen Elizabeth School in Mansfield, the 11th house move in her life.
Miss Dunn said: "She didn't want to move. I think she was settled, whether they were her words or not."
The coroner asked: "Was there concern for Amber, to use the phrase, 'falling through the cracks?'"
Miss Dunn replied: "The changes were upsetting as it was. She did not say why she was going."
The coroner asked: "During your time with Amber, was there a mention of self-harm, suicide, anything of that nature?"
Shaking her head, Miss Dunn said: "None at all."
Girl found dead had run away after being 'punished for drinking cherryade'
The inquest into the tragic death of the Mansfield teenager today looked at the events following Amber running away from home in January 2014 and the action taken by agencies to protect her. The youngster's body was found in bushes after she ran away again in 2015.
Family resource worker Sarah Hart gave evidence at Nottingham coroner's court.
As part of Tibshelf multi agency team she had been sent after police reported Amber as a missing person in 2014
The inquest heard Amber had absconded for four hours and hid in a neighbor' s garden after she was asked to wash the pots.
Inquest told there was 'no immediate risk' to tragic teenager Amber Peat despite her repeatedly running away from home.
David Wallace a teacher at Tibshelf Comunity School told the inquest at Nottingham coroner’s Court this afternoon he had received a phone call from a letting officer that Amber had turned up at the school at 9pm after running away from home on April 3 2014.
He said it had been a cold windy and rainy evening Amber told him she had run away from home at around 5pm after an argument with her mum and a sibling.
He said: “She did not go into details, but she had walked to the old school site about half a mile from her home and walked around the bridleway.
“I explained i had to contact her parents and she became sullen and quiet with her head down. “She said they wouldn’t care and they were more interested in the dog which was in the process of giving birth..
“She said she had run away from her parents before and they wouldn’t be bothered. “I was concerned how a child her age could away in the pouring rain for four hours.”
He had contacted Amber’s parents mum Kelly and stepfather Danny Peat to come and pick her up but Danny said it wasn’t possible as the dog was ‘in labour’. Mr Wallace drove Amber home and said her parents did not show any emotion or relief at her return.
Read more at: Amber Peat’s family refused to pick her up from school after she went missing because their dog was giving birth
Day 5
An inquest heard today that Amber had written a note to her mum during a meeting with a youth worker in April 2014.
In the letter, the teen wrote: "Dear mum, I just want to be your little girl again".
The Mail Online reported that mum Kelly Peat "laughed" at her daughter, with Amber's youth worker Sorele Swallow telling the inquest the teen had been left "disappointed" by the reaction.
Girl, 13, found hanged LAUGHED at by mum after saying 'I want to be little again'