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A schoolgirl was brutally murdered by a teenage Facebook messenger friend who had sex with her dead body on a bench, a court heard.

Viktorija Sokolova, 14, arranged to meet the 16-year-old boy at midnight in a city park after exchanging messages on social media.

She was then subjected to a “sustained and ferocious” attack with a hammer-like weapon inside a pavilion called the 'Black House', it is claimed.

Wolverhampton Crown Court was told “horrific levels of violence” were used in the killing, leaving her head “smashed in”.

Jurors heard the boy then allegedly dragged Viktorija’s dead body to a bench and raped her before fleeing West Park in Wolverhampton.

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Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC said a dog walker came across the horrific scene the following morning.

Viktorija, originally from Lithuania, was found in a kneeling position over the arm of the bench, naked from the waist down.

Mr Rees told the court: “The dog walker initially thought was a blow-up doll resting on a park bench.

“At first he dismissed it as some sort of prank and continued with his walk.

“However, on returning to the same area, he realised, no doubt to his horror, the figure was the body of a young girl.

“Viktorija was only 14 years old. She had been subjected to a sustained and ferocious attack to the head.

“It involved a minimum of 21 blows, some of which resulted in injuries consistent with the use of a weapon like a hammer.

“The force of the attack was such that it caused multiple fractures of the underlying skullcap and facial skeleton.

“In short, her head had been smashed in.”

Mr Rees also spoke about the "widespread bloodstaining" in the park - indicating Victorija was moving after suffering her first bleeding injury.

He said: "There was widespread bloodstaining, including spatters of blood, along the bench and panelling at the back of the pavilion, suggesting that Viktorija was still moving in this area after she had received her first bleeding injury.

"There was a large pool of blood on the block-paving floor inside the pavilion, consistent with the body having remained in the same position for a period of time while bleeding heavily."

Mr Rees told the jury: "The evidence indicates that Viktorija was subjected to the fatal attack in the pavilion before being dragged to the bench where she was discovered.

"The prosecution suggest that the attacker stopped along the route to take off Viktorija's pink boots, which would have made it easier to pull off her jeans and knickers completely.

"It may be of significance that the pink boots were found near a tree stump, which could have been used to arrange Viktorija's body in the same sort of position as it was when she was left draped over the park bench."

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Viktorija, who moved to the UK in 2011, and her alleged killer were friends but had lost touch, the court heard.

Mr Rees told jurors the boy got back in touch with her through Facebook Messenger a week before she died.

He said: “He invited Viktorija to meet him in the park on the night she died because he wanted to have anal sex with her.

“If that was his wish, then he succeeded.”

But he added that the “horrific levels of violence deployed” showed Viktorija had not consented.

A post mortem revealed the teen, who lived close to the scene, died from blunt force trauma to the head.

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Jurors were told the defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admits meeting Viktorija in the park.

But he denies attacking her in April and say she was “alive and well” when he left her there to go home.

The boy - who sat in the dock wearing a blue t-shirt and jeans - denies murder, rape and sexual penetration of a corpse.

The trial continues.