Georgia: Affluent upbringing hid a dark discontent and trouble with drink and drugs

FOURTEEN-year-old Georgia Rowe's background was in stark contrast with Neve's - but was just as dark in its content.

She was brought up from the age of six months by an aunt in Sorn, Mauchline, in East Ayrshire, after her mother was deemed by social services to be incapable of looking after her due to drink and drug problems.

However, her upbringing was a comfortable middle-class one of ballet lessons, ski trips and singing competitions, and she tried twice to get a place at the fee-paying Glasgow Academy.

A close friend of the family, who visited Georgia with her aunt the night before she died, is the aristocratic shoe designer Lady Lucinda Norreys.

However, she was known to the authorities from a very young age. Georgia, a former pupil of Notre Dame Secondary in Glasgow, was said to have had a violent temper, and to have used hard drugs and alcohol.

Like Neve, she had spent time in a secure unit - admitted after smashing her aunt's head off a kitchen worktop - before being moved to the open unit of the Good Shepherd, where, although they were not kept under lock and key, all outings were supposed to be authorised. Even in the Bishopton home, however, there was evidence of friction. In one message Georgia said: "Arguing with everyone. Am on run."

Despite the time she spent in Hull, care workers in Yorkshire said Georgia considered Scotland to be her home.

Neve was said by her mother, Collette Bysouth, not to have spoken much of her relationship with Georgia. She said that she met Neve's friend on once occasion, during which she had come across as "bright and bubbly". When Ms Bysouth later asked Neve about Georgia she had said that she was "all right" but that she "spoke too much".