The two girls convicted of killing Angela Wrightson would have been named by the media if they were "stable and strong-minded", the judge said.

A court order has prevented the naming of the two girls, who are now both 15, since they first appeared before magistrates in 2014.

Various media organisations asked for this order to be lifted once they were sentenced to at least 15 years, but the judge said their welfare was at risk after hearing how one of them tried to kill herself a number of times during her trial.

Mr Justice Globe told the court: "Each defendant poses a risk of self-harm. In one case, it is a real and present danger.

"Removing anonymity is likely to exacerbate what is already a dangerous situation.

"In circumstances where I might be satisfied that both of you were stable, strong-minded defendants convicted of serious crime, the balance might arguably have been in favour of the lifting of anonymity."