Jessica Bedford

Jessica Bedford was a friend of Amy Barlow who went with her to a house party in February 2018.

Amy told her parents Tracy Barlow and Steve McDonald that her and Jessica would be getting a bus to the precinct and then going out to the cinema Steve told Amy that he would pick her up outside the cinema at 6 o'clock.

Jessica told Amy that they had been invited to a party along with a group of friends from school including Matthew Begley, a boy Amy fancied. Although Amy mentioned that she thought they were going to the cinema, the mention of Matthew persuaded her to go to the party.

At the party, Jessica and Amy flirted with Matthew and his friend Ben Siddel. When Jessica told her it was 6 o'clock, Amy mentioned that her dad would be at the cinema looking for her and as he had taken her phone, he wouldn't know where she was. Jessica left the party soon afterwards, leaving Amy to be lectured by Tracy and Steve when they found out where she had gone instead of the cinema.