Relatives of Gaia Pope say they faced threats of being thrown out of court for crying during an inquest into the teenager’s death.
It comes after revelations earlier this week that the man accused of raping Gaia was already under police investigation at the time of the attack. The family say he should have been more closely monitored.
Gaia’s cousin Marienna Pope-Weidemann sat through one of the longest inquests in British history in the hope of seeing justice. She told openDemocracy the family were initially optimistic about having been assigned the youngest female coroner in the UK.
