AMANDA Jones sought answers from her sister about what happened to baby Charlotte in the weeks after the infant’s death.
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The inquest was told Amanda Jones, a qualified childcare worker, said she had tried to push Renee Jones on what had happened to Charlotte.
In her statement to police in February, Amanda Jones said her sister had “not once denied she has had involvement and seems to have accepted she is going to jail for murder”.
Yesterday, Amanda Jones said she had not spoken to her sister for two years.
She also admitted the two had never been particularly close and that it was a difficult thing to talk about.
She said she had never directly asked Renee if she had been involved in Charlotte’s death.
“I poked around it, probed, to get what I could,” she told the court.
“It was wishy-washy, I don’t know what happened.”
Amanda Jones said she was no longer working in childcare.
“I was passionate about it when I started,” she said.
“But I lost that passion. Charlotte’s death has had quite an impact.”
She said the family dynamic had begun to break down leading up to Charlotte’s death, and she had not been seeing as much of her sister and niece.
“I sort of just distanced myself because I didn’t want to see it unravel,” she said yesterday.
