Complex sentence: Carthy reported Kelly being an excellent scholar and an artist of no mean degree-at the inquest Barnett told the coroner that she often asked him to read the newspaper reports of the murders to her, suggesting that she was illiterate.
Split into simpler sentences: Carthy reported Kelly being "an excellent scholar and an artist of no mean degree". At the inquest, however, Barnett,, told the coroner that she often asked him to read to her the newspaper reports of the murders, suggesting that she was illiterate.