SCHOOL friends of Liberty Baker said she was a “treasure” after the driver who killed her was jailed yesterday.

Speaking outside Oxford Crown Court, 14-year-old Mercy Greaney, who was also hit by Robert Blackwell’s car, described the last time she saw her friend alive.

Mercy, of Deer Park, Witney, said: “We met as normal on Monday morning, it was all happy.

“She was talking about the concert she’d been to the night before, and the last thing I can remember was us laughing about some sort of stupid joke.

“Then all I can remember is being on top of the car.

“And then people surrounding around Liberty and giving her CPR.”

Asked how she felt when she learnt Liberty was dead, she said: “I was shocked, it didn’t seem quite real. So it didn’t really hit me straight away.

“We’ve been best friends since we were four. We went to primary school together and stayed best friends right the way through.

“She was the best, like there’s nothing bad you could ever say about her.”

India Carter, 14, of Thorney Leys, Witney, added: “Whenever we were together we would always be laughing.”

Isla Squires, 15, of Saxel Close, Aston, said: “She was a treasure to us.”

All the girls went to Henry Box School in Witney with Liberty.