Girl strangled by lorry driver should have been tucked up in bed

Published: 4:48PM GMT 04 March 2010

Stacey Lawrence"s physique was found in the taxi of a white Spar truck parked in a lay-by in Warmington, Northants, on Aug twenty-nine last year.

She had been on a smoothness run with her mother"s fiance Darren Walker, 40, whose physique was found unresolved from a tree in circuitously woodland.

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Recording a outcome of wrong murdering at her inquisition at Kettering Magistrates" Court, Northamptonshire coroner Anne Pember apologised to Stacey"s family for their loss.

Ms Pember said: "Miss Lawrence, I am deeply contemptible for the loss of you and your family of your daughter Stacey who was usually 9 years old.

"You entrusted her to the man you desired and who was your fiance. I have no critique of you, you could not have contemplated that such a tragedy could succeed her.

"Any primogenitor should be wakeful that sleeping in a truck taxi is not an suitable place for a nine-year-old lady who in my perspective should be safely tucked up in her bed at home."

Stacey was found in the taxi of the truck after concerns were lifted when she and Walker did not lapse home after a smoothness run.

Police called to the lorry, that was parked in a lay-by off the A605, found the schoolgirl lying in the bed of the taxi with a square of black chubby turn her neck.

The inquisition listened the youngster was underneath a duvet in the "unkempt" cab, with stays of food and her boots additionally in the lorry.

In a matter review to the justice Pc Robert Blott, who was called to the scene, said: "The taxi area was utterly dim and in an careless careless condition.

"There was a figure lying on the bed lonesome in a dark-coloured duvet."

He pronounced her legs were apart, her physique was roughly somewhat disfigured to the right and her head was lying on one side.

Some form of black element was turn her neck and her face was bloated, the inquisition heard.

Prof Guy Rutty, a Home Office pathologist who carefully thought about the stage and after carried out a post mortem hearing on Stacey, told the inquisition he beheld her knickers were not in the right on all sides when her physique was found.

He said: "During the hearing it became strong to me that the deceased"s hoop skirt were wrongly positioned. They were outward the left leg."

He pronounced there could be dual explanations for the situation, one being that Stacey had taken her own hoop skirt down afterwards put it behind on wrong prior to descending asleep.

"The second is that it would indicate that she has been re-dressed after the situation and I have positively seen that in alternative cases," he added.