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By Arthur Martin
Last updated at 12:56 AM on 19th November 2009
A 'manipulative and callous' girl of 13 who relentlessly tormented a vicar's daughter to the point where she jumped 50ft to her death was found guilty of manslaughter yesterday.
Hatice Can and accomplice Oluwakemi Ajose, then 17, subjected Rosimeiri Boxall to a terrifying campaign of bullying for two years.
Rosimeiri, 19, who had been adopted and brought to Britain from a Brazilian slum, was punched, slapped, pulled by her hair, sprayed in the eyes with deodorant and branded a 'whore' and a 'slag'.
Minutes before she jumped from a third floor window, she was told by Can: 'Do you want to die? Jump out of the window.'
When Rosimeiri replied: 'Do you want me to jump?' the 13-year-old said simply: 'Yes'.
As she lay dying on the street below, Can looked over her body and said: 'Serves you right, bitch.'
Earlier, Rosimeiri, who was known as Rosi, had been so terrified that when a neighbour asked her if she needed help she insisted that the girls were 'her friends'. Can was jealous because a boy had said he liked Rosi better than Can.
Both defendants were yesterday convicted of manslaughter by a jury at the Old Bailey. They will be sentenced on December 15 and face lengthy spells behind bars.
Can had spent much of the trial talking to friends on her mobile phone and laughing as she tried on her barrister's wig and gown - apparently unaware of the seriousness of her position.
But she wept after hearing the verdict and her sobs could be heard long after she was taken down to the cells.
Rosi's heartbroken parents, who sat through the entire trial, displayed extraordinary compassion by forgiving the two girls.
Kids huh
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