What did Lois Jenkins say in relation to whether she had ever seen Sion hit BJ?
I feel she and the four daughters would have seen, heard or been told something by BJ.
Two friends of murdered teenager Billie-Jo Jenkins have told how she confided in them that her foster father had punched her and scratched her neck.
Laura Jane Conway, now 22, told the Old Bailey the 13-year-old had come to school with blood on her face.
Holly Prior, also 22, said the teenager had told her Sion Jenkins had pushed her against a door and scratched her. [...]
The court was shown videos of interviews between Ms Prior and Ms Conway, then aged 13, which were made by police shortly after Billie-Jo died. [...]
Earlier, Mr Jenkins' former wife Lois, 44, recalled how she had also seen the scratch marks, but Billie-Jo had told her she got them because she had been carrying her schoolbag the wrong way and another pupil had pulled it.
Mrs Jenkins also described the former deputy headteacher's "vein-popping" anger when he lost his temper with Billie-Jo.
She said he would sometimes flip and lose control, becoming "red in the face", but said she had never seen Mr Jenkins hit Billie-Jo or threaten her with violence.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Billie-Jo 'attacked by Jenkins'
Billie-Jo had not told an adult because
she could not go back to her natural family and there was little realistic chance of her finding a new one if she returned to a children's home.
"In truth, she had nowhere else to go," said Mr Hilliard. "That girl suffered in silence and gave Holly Prior the reason why.
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She was worried that the defendant and Lois Jenkins would lose their jobs."
BBC NEWS | England | Billie-Jo 'suffered in silence'
Sion Jenkins, 48, now of Lymington, Hampshire, told jurors of two incidents when he disciplined Billie-Jo. On one occasion he slapped her face.
The first incident described to jurors in which he disciplined Billie-Jo was when she was 12.
Mr Jenkins said: "I heard a noise upstairs so I went up and Billie was pulling heads off dolls."
He said Esther, his daughter then aged seven, was crying, and he asked Billie-Jo to stop, but when Esther went to stop further damage, Billie-Jo swore at her and grabbed her hair.
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I prised one of Billie's hands off Esther's hair and then slapped her face," he said. [...]
Mr Jenkins said: "
I turned Billie's face gently towards Lois and said 'look at your mother'.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Jenkins admits slapping Billie-Jo
"For the first time he admitted he had a temper, previously he had always blanked it out and
refused to admit that he had hit me."
She described the reality of life in a household that outwardly appeared to be a happy middle class home, but was anything but. Often, she said, her husband was violent to their four daughters.
Two years after moving to Hastings his wife alleged he carried out his most severe attack, which left her with a perforated eardrum.
"He hit me around the face hard and my head was spinning with the force of it," she said. "I went upstairs and hid in the loft crying. Later I went downstairs and it was as if Sion had forgotten he had hit me."
In statements never read to the court, Annie Jenkins, then 12, said her father had once punched her so hard in the stomach she had to lie down to recover.
When asked about the beatings by police, she said: "But doesn't every family have a naughty stick?"
'Doesn't every family have a naughty stick?'
parts bolded by me
It looks to me as if he admitted the incident one of his daughters was witness to.
