A report made by a 12-year-old girl who said she was raped was taken “very seriously” by police, her inquest has heard.

Semina Halliwell tragically died by suicide after taking an overdose in June 2021 at her home in Southport, Merseyside. Three months prior to her death, she had told her mum she had been sexually assaulted by an older boy in January of that year.