Girls ‘stood over dying vicar’s daughter and blamed each other’

Oluwakemi Ajose, then aged 17, and a 13-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, refused to explain why the girl had jumped from the third floor window, a witness said. Instead the two alleged killers just argued between themselves.

Rosimeiri Boxall, known as Rosie, had been adopted by a Thamesmead vicar and brought from her home in Rio to London three years before her death in May last year.

The court has heard she had been attacked by Ajose and the younger girl at a home in Blackheath owned by Greenwich social services in a row over a boy.

The attack, less than 30 minutes before her death, had been filmed by a neighbour on his mobile phone.

The jury has seen footage said to show Ajose spraying air freshener into Rosie's face. Rosie, 19, refused to fight back as the pair punched and slapped her and was clearly "scared," the court has heard.

Minutes later she jumped from the kitchen window of the flat where Ajose lived in temporary accommodation for young people.

Today the jury heard a tape recording of a police interview with a teenage boy, who cannot be named because of his age. He said everyone at the scene had been shocked and upset and had asked Ajose and the younger girl how Rosie had fallen.

"They didn't tell us," he said. "They just told us that before that Rosie was saying something about Kemi [Ajose] and that's how it started all the bitching off. Kemi said that Rosie said something about her, but she didn't say what."

He went on: "I asked [the younger girl] why she had been punching her [Rosie] and she didn't answer my question and changed the subject.

"Then they both started moaning at each other saying, You started it' and all that.

"They were basically saying, You planned to do this to Rosie.' They said that to each other but they didn't say what this' was. The window was open and we asked them how Rosie had dropped out but they would not answer, they would not listen to us."

The court has heard that the younger girl had continued to abuse Rosie as she lay dying, calling her a "whore" and a "f***ing bitch."

The girl then ran upstairs as if to pack a bag and leave but was prevented by a neighbour who was "going nuts".

Ajose, now 19, of Charlton, and the younger girl, who is now aged 15, deny manslaughter. The case continues.