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A new inquest is to be held into the tragic case of Victoria Agoglia. The High Court has quashed the verdict of an original inquest.
Victoria, who was living in a home under the responsibility of Manchester city council, died aged 15 after she was injected with heroin by a man then aged 50. She died in 2003 but prior to her death she had disclosed to social workers that she was being forcibly injected with drugs, and raped, but no effective action was taken to protect her.
It was her death that began to expose the widespread child sexual abuse of girls in the Greater Manchester area. It prompted Greater Manchester Police to launch an investigation - Operation Augusta - during which evidence came to light that Victoria had been subjected to sexual exploitation and abuse for several years prior to her death.
Augusta identified up to 97 suspected offenders and at least 57 children believed to be potential victims. But a review commissioned by Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, in 2017 discovered it was discontinued in July 2005 due to resources.
At her inquest in 2007, coroner Simon Nelson concluded that the authorities could not have foreseen her death, but the review later commissioned by Mr Burnham in 2017 and published in 2020, found that social services ‘failed to protect her’. The damning 2020 report said the coroner's narrative verdict recorded at her inquest 'significantly underplays the coercion and control she was subject to' in terms of child sexual exploitation.
It also suggested the content of the report, following information gathered as part of the review, could represent new evidence. It found Victoria was threatened, assaulted and taken back to her residential unit 'intoxicated'.
The report also
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