Woman in court over stabbed girl (From Swindon Advertiser)

Woman in court over stabbed girl

10:49am Thursday 16th February 2012 in National News © Press Association 2011

A woman has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of a 13-year-old girl who was found fatally stabbed in a park.

Hannah Bonser, 26, made a brief appearance before Doncaster Magistrates' Court charged with the murder of Casey-Lyanne Kearney.

The teenager was found lying fatally injured in Elmfield Park, Doncaster, on Tuesday afternoon after dialling 999.

Bonser, who has brown, shoulder-length hair, was wearing a dark blue T-shirt which concealed a tattoo on her left arm.

She nodded to confirm her name and date of birth and gave her address as Cusworth House, Doncaster.

She listened as the murder charge was put to her and a separate charge of possessing two knives.

Relatives of Casey listened in the public gallery, some sobbing, as the details of the case were outlined.

The defendant looked at the floor throughout the 15-minute hearing, occasionally glancing upwards as the prosecutor read out details of the case.

Magistrates remanded her in custody and she will next appear at Sheffield Crown Court on February 23.

Casey had left her home in Rossington at around midday on Tuesday and caught the bus to Doncaster town centre where she was going to meet a friend, but never arrived.