A mentally ill Albanian woman who slashed a seven-year-old girl’s throat had been given refugee status despite the Home Office being told she’d admitted lying about being trafficked on at least three occasions, an inquest heard today.

Eltiona Skana, 33, was initially refused asylum after smuggling herself into Britain in the back of a lorry.

But for reasons which have never previously been revealed, after lodging an appeal she was told she was being allowed to stay.

Tragically, just three months later, in a crime which shocked the nation, the paranoid schizophrenia sufferer launched a deadly attack on little Emily Jones as she rode her scooter through the park.

Her parents have said their daughter would still be alive if her killer hadn’t been granted asylum.

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