As if aware of constant threat, she always slept with her gun under her pillow, even at her family home in Yorkshire, where she preferred to spend her nights in a summer-house in the garden rather than in her own comfortable bedroom amongst her beloved family.

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The teenager, now 17, pointed the gas powered weapon - which did not require a firearms licence - at the girl and pulled the trigger while they were in the garden of a house in Gloucester last summer.

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There is also the Summer Palace, a massive imperial garden built in the 18th century that is on the outskirts of the city.

CNN: April 10, 2012 -- Updated 1353 GMT (2153 HKT)