| Location | Welney, Norfolk/cambridgeshire Border |
| Age | 6 years |
| Cause of Death | Murder |
| Date of Birth | 16/07/1993 |
| Date of Death | 06/05/2000 |
| Visitors | 15,198 since 18/02/2008 |
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In a small churchyard at South Mimms a small grave marks the spot where a six- year-old girl is laid to rest. With its plain wooden cross, a small toy Piglet distinguishes it as the grave of a child among the other ornate, ivy-covered, stone memorials. The carefully tended plot stands in horrific contrast to the short, brutal life that ended at the hands of an abusive stepmother and father.
Lauren Victoria Wright was born on 16 July 1993, at the QE2 Hospital in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire and died on the 6th May 2000 at her home in Welney, Norfolk.
Lauren’s parents, Craig Wright and Jennifer Bennett, had separated prior to her birth. After the arrival of Lauren her father,Wright, demanded a blood test to prove that she was in fact his daughter. Lauren became a pawn in her parents' volatile relationship. During their frequent separations, Ms Bennett would telephone Wright and threaten to hit Lauren unless he came to visit. As she grew up, Lauren was often left alone at the unheated garage workshop where Wright worked, or literally dumped at the local pub. The "delightful, chatty little girl" became an object of pity and charity. But amid Laurens bleakness there was some light. On occasions Wright would take his daughter to visit her grandmother, Christine, and her aunts Dawn and Vicky, at the Red Hart pub they ran in Three Holes, Norfolk. It was after one such outing, shortly before Lauren's fourth birthday, that a fateful telephone conversation took place.
Lauren called her mother she said "Hello Mummy. Do you still love me?â€
Bennett replied “No, I hate you.â€
“The look on that child's face was enough to make your heart break. She sobbed her heart out." Recalled Dawn Wright, Lauren’s aunt.
Lauren never went home to live with her natural mother.
Hertfordshire Social Services placed her on a child protection register between July 1997 and January 1998 and a custody battle ended with her grandmother being granted a full residency order for her in January 1998. But the pub failed by May 1998 and with it Lauren's brief happiness as she rejoined her father. Wright had since moved to Welney in Norfolk from Potters Bar. His mother and younger sister, Vicky, were also rehoused in the village. Next door lived Tracey Scarff - a brash, abrasive, single mother- of- two with an unenviable local reputation. She eventually formed a relationship with a "besotted" Wright.
Lauren continued to see her mother, and in May 1999, set off for a holiday in Turkey with Ms Bennett, her boyfriend of the time, and three of their children. The holiday was to turn into a nightmare as Bennett continued to vent her fury on Lauren, eventually dumping her at the British consulate before scratching her photograph from her passport. Bewildered Lauren was met at Gatwick airport by family members, her mother who was on the same flight never said goodbye.
Within a couple of months of Craig Wright and Tracey Scarff moving in together they annouced their engagement, Lauren was their bridesmaid, within a year of the wedding Lauren was dead.
The abuse at the hands of Tracey Wright had started some months earlier and as the terror escalated, Lauren became a familiar bedraggled figure, walking 10 feet behind Wright and her own son and daughter, carrying the other children's bags, soaked in the rain while they gathered under an umbrella. Lauren was forced to eat pepper sandwiches or insects, made to stand in front of burning fires and beaten for wetting her bed. She was ignored as Tracey Wright bought her own children sweets and presents. The moment the children returned from school, Lauren was sent to bed. At home, her stepmother encouraged the other children to pick on their quieter stepsister.
Lauren began to lose weight, her hair started falling out. On hot days she boiled in shabby, oversized clothes large enough to cover her bruises. Either too scared or too in awe of the woman she called "Mum", Lauren mimicked her stepmother's endless stream of explanations for the injuries, even when she was seen by a string of doctors and social workers.
On 15 March 2000, she was seen by a consultant paediatrician, Dr Jonathan Dossetor, at the request of social workers but he agreed with the litany of excuses used for her injuries by her stepmother. Over the months, teachers, four different doctors and two social workers saw the injuries to Lauren but insufficient action was taken to protect her.
Lauren was used to beatings but when Tracey Wright punched her viciously in the stomach in early May, part of her digestive system collapsed. She suffered days of agony and vomiting during which her stepmother refused to take her to the doctor. Relatives accepted her excuses that a wardrobe had fallen on her and that she had gastroenteritis. On the Thursday night before his child died, Wright saw Lauren briefly in the bathroom. By now in intense pain, she simply asked for a glass of water.
On Saturday morning, Tracey Wright's young son saw her punch Lauren twice in the stomach.
At lunchtime, the stepmother came "crashing" into Lauren's grandmother's kitchen next door. Christine, Dawn and Vicky returned to find Lauren's body on the bottom bunk of her bedroom, one arm stiffly outstretched, foul smelling liquid pouring from her nose and mouth. Tracey Wright remained downstairs, hysterically screaming, while Vicky went to get Wright from the pub. Dawn and her mother tried to follow the ambulance operator's instructions, attempting to breathe air into the blocked airways. As they lifted her shirt to start compressions, they noted bruising. By the time the ambulance arrived, rigor mortis had begun to set in.
The paramedic looked at the father, grandmother and aunt and said simply: "I am so sorry ..." Lauren Victoria Wright was dead.
That night her parents went to the pub.
At the time of Lauren’s death she had more than 60 bruises on her emaciated body.
Medical experts advised that the injuries sustained by Lauren were like those suffered by somebody who had been involved in a serious car accident.
Tracey Wright's treatment of little Lauren was described as "very near the top of the scale of inhumanity" by one of the police officers who led the investigation. Lauren Wright was brutally killed after being let down by every single agency responsible for protecting her in the months before her death.
Two witnesses, one a trained social worker, described Lauren as looking "like an advert for the NSPCC" in the weeks leading to her death, while others told the court she looked like a "ragamuffin" and a "waif".
One neighbour watched as Tracey shouted obscenities at Lauren in the street, punching her in the head and walking off, leaving the little girl a crumpled heap on the ground and only to get up on feet with silent tears and run after her step-mother.
Tracey Wright (31) and Craig Wright (38) were both convicted of wilful neglect and manslaughter following a four week trial at Norwich Crown Court.
Tracey Wright was sentenced to 15 years in jail. Tracey Wright would be eligible for parole after saving half of the 15 year term; Tracey Wright may well now be a free woman walking the streets.
Craig Wright was sentenced to 3 year jail terms for each of his convictions, the terms to run concurrently. Craig Wright could be be released on parole after serving half of the three year term. Craig Wright is now a free man.
Social services, plus education and health authority officials admitted that serious mistakes were made in the way Lauren was cared for. One social services manager (David Wright) resigned as a result of her death.
ALL MY LOVE TO ALL MY ANGLES
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(( HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL HAPPY NEW YEAR .))
I would like to thank you all of you my dear friends for ever thing you do for my angles love you all big hugs. It helps to know you all care and love them too and understand to all of you are my support and help keep me going love you all for that take care all my love Sylvie bye for now.
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Thats as special as they come
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And happy memories from yesteryear.
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(( HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL HAPPY NEW YEAR .))
I would like to thank you all of you my dear friends for ever thing you do for my angles love you all big hugs. It helps to know you all care and love them too and understand to all of you are my support and help keep me going love you all for that take care all my love Sylvie bye for now.
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Thinking of you at Christmastime
You're in my thoughts today
You've only gone to Heaven
To watch over us each day.
Today we'll spend together
just like we always do
I'm sending Christmas Wishes
with love
from me to you.
Christmas blessings
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GOODNIGHT GODBLESS ANGEL ~
`♥ Christmas Without You`♥
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Christmas without you here with me,
can never possibly be the same.
But I carry an Angel within my heart;
one so precious, who has your name.
An Angel forever watching over me,
at Christmas time, and over the year.
Although you can't be here anymore,
inside my heart, you are so very near.
There is no special present for you,
wrapped up under my Christmas tree.
But I have a greater gift to give to you;
all the love you can still feel from me.
No, Christmas time without you here,
could not ever possibly be the same.
But, I have had the precious gift of you,
and the memories and love, will remain.
� Pamela Hall
All my love Sylvie
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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Birthday Remembrance
Thinking of you on your birthday
But that is nothing new
For no day dawns and no day ends
Without a thought of you.
We cannot send a birthday card,
Your hand we cannot touch,
But God will take our greetings
To the one we love so much.
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...............Happy Birthday Lauren .............
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♫ ♫ Happy Birthday To You ♫ ♫
♫ ♫ Happy Birthday To You ♫ ♫
♫ ♫ Happy Birthday Dear Lauren♫ ♫
♫ ♫ Happy Birthday To You ♫ ♫
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ღ ღ ღ ღ All My Love Beautiful Angel ღ ღ ღ ღ
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*ღ.......ღ* *ღHeavenly *ღ.......ღ* *ღ shona sengupta. ..ღ*
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How will heaven be?
As far as I can see
It will have huge bells
And will be situated on clouds
It will have many golden wells
That will so often swell
Rain will be abundant
And the sun will shine all day long
Angels will play on the harp
The sweetest summer song
Music that will touch the heart
While those beneath will shed drops of sorrow
Little will they know what will happen on the morrow
But to them up above
As plain and clear it will be
As far as far as I can see
Yes there will be misty alleys
And lush green meadows
Fresh with the fragrant smell of spring
Winter will never be bitter
Summer never so hot
Autumn never so bare
And resources never so scarce
Food for all will be relished by all.
Grateful we’ll be as grateful can be
Mountains high and strong and brown
Surrounding that hidden land,
Beautiful and vast seas I see
There colour as blue as sapphire can be
And the white waves lashing upon the shore
Sitting on the flattened grey rocks
Who would not call it absolutely heavenly?
However it might actually be,
But can we still not see
There will lie behind this seen
A relieving feeling of bliss
For where not have we been
But is this not by all believed
That after one’s decease
This is the land of eternal peace
Where we all ultimately reach?
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WELCOME TO MY ANGEL BIRTHDAY.......
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ITS PARTY TIME FOR EACH AND EVERY ANGEL ALL ARE INVITED TODAY
ALL OF YOU ARE WELCOME TO MY BIRTHDAY PARTY WHERE WE CAN ALL GO PLAY
WE HAVE OUR GROWN UP ANGELS WHO MAKE OUR PARTIES SO MUCH FUN
WE HAVE ANGELS OF ALL AGES EACH OF THEM SHALL COME AND DANCE IN THE SUN
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THE SKIES ARE LOOKING WONDERFUL SO BLUE AND THE SUNSHINE IS SO BRIGHT
ALL THE ANGELS ARE DRESSED UP READY FOR MY PARTY TODAY IT IS SUCH A LOVLEY SIGHT
WE CAN SEE THE CAKE AND THE BALLONS WE SHALL ALL HAVE A GREAT TIME
KNOWING THAT ALL THE ANGELS WILL BE SHARING THIS SPECAIL DAY OF MINE
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IT IS JUST AMAZING ANGELS OF ALL AGES JOIN IN TOGETHER
THIS WONDERFUL PLACE WHERE WE LIVE NOW IS OUR HOME THAT WE SHALL SHARE FOREVER
THE MUSIC PLAYS HAPPY TUNES WE CAN SING ALONG TOO
THE MAGIC OF LIVING IN PARADISE IS THAT WE ALWAYS HAVE PLENTY TO DO.......
copyright© Rosalind Roberts 8/7/2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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Birthday Remembrance
Thinking of you on your birthday
But that is nothing new
For no day dawns and no day ends
Without a thought of you.
We cannot send a birthday card,
Your hand we cannot touch,
But God will take our greetings
To the one we love so much.
★ Goodnight Precious Angel ★
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★ Sweet Dreams ★ Sleep Tight ★
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