Boys set up a group chat about girls at a school attended by a 14-year-old who is believed to have killed herself, a pre-inquest review heard.
Mia Janin, a year 10 pupil at the Jewish Free School (JFS) in Kenton, north-west London, was found dead at her family home in Harrow on March 12 2021.
Her father, Mariano Janin, told a previous pre-inquest review hearing in March that she was “cyber bullied”.
Male pupils at JFS set up the social media group, which was about some of the female pupils, assistant coroner Tony Murphy, sitting at Barnet Coroner’s Court, said on Monday when discussing the inquest’s potential scope.
Rabbi Cohen, former deputy headteacher at the school, told the boys to close down the group after Mia’s death and Mr Murphy said it would have been helpful if the group chat had been “preserved” to see “what, if anything, it contained about Mia”.
Emails suggest bosses at JFS “only became aware of the group chat after Mia’s sad death”, Mr Murphy said.
