BREAKING Woman who killed Emily Jones, 7, on Mother's Day loses appeal against sentence
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA woman who killed a seven-year-old girl by cutting her throat in a park on Mother's Day has lost an appeal against her sentence.
Eltiona Skana attacked Emily Jones while she was on her scooter with her dad in Queen's Park, Bolton, Greater Manchester, in 2020.
The 31-year-old admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility and was given a life sentence with a minimum term of ten years and eight months. READ MORE: LIVE: Murder investigation launched after man dies - updates The minimum term was increased from eight years last year after the sentencing judge, Mr Justice Wall, admitted he had made an error in calculating the term.
Lawyers for Skana, who is originally from Albania and has paranoid schizophrenia, appealed against the sentence - arguing the minimum term was too long and that the judge should only have given her a hospital order.
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