The UK’s worst child murderers – from Jon Venables and Robert Thompson to killers of Elizabeth Edwards
Pair today join the grisly cast of Britain’s kid killers
THE two teen sweethearts, guilty of murdering a dinner lady and her young daughter, today add their names to the harrowing list of killer children.
The pair stabbed Elizabeth Edwards, 49, and her youngest daughter Katie, 13, as they slept in their beds.
The boy, now 15, became one of the youngest ever double murderers after admitting two counts of murder at Nottingham Crown Court.
The girl, who is also now 15, had admitted manslaughter but denied murdering the church-going dinner lady and her daughter due to her mental condition.
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In his closing speech prosecutor Peter Joyce QC said "brutality and contempt oozes from every pore of this girl" and she held the lives of her alleged victims as cheaply as she would "a hamster or a goldfish".
But the killer teens are not the first to commit a crime which has shocked the nation and today join the grisly cast of Britain’s kid killers.
Jon Venables and Robert Thompson
Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were just ten-years-old when they murdered two-year-old James Bulger.
The horrifying crime shocked the nation when the little lad was abducted, tortured and murdered by the evil boys before being dumped on railway tracks in 1993.
The pair were jailed but are now out of prison having been given new identities by the Government.
Snapchat Killers
In December 2014 two teenagers – known later in court as Girl A and Girl B – tortured and murdered loner Angela filming the attack on their phones.
Dubbed the Snapchat killers the youngsters sent a selfie from inside a police van
after killing tragic Angela.
The teens also took a smiling picture beside Ms Wrightson before continuing to batter their victim with a shovel, coffee table, kettle and a screw-studded stick.
They were convicted of Angela’s murder and jailed for a minimum of 15 years.
A neighbour of the girls, from Hartlepool, Co Durham, said: “Separately they could be quite sweet girls but together they were devils.”
Mary Bell
Mary Bell strangled Martin Brown, four, and Brian Howe, three, in 1968, when she was just ten years old.
She was said to have strangled the boys, aged four and three, "solely for the pleasure and excitement of killing".
Bell received life in detention but was released at 23 and given a fresh identity to protect her daughter when she was born four years later.
She has had three assumed identities and has moved at least five times after being identified.
Killed for ‘a dare’
Three teenage yobs were handed the equivalent of life sentences after beating a homeless man to death.
Brothers Connor Doran, 17, and Brandon Doran, 14, and their friend Simon Evans, also 14, set upon rough-sleeping Kevin Bennett outside a supermarket.
Mr Bennett, 53, died in hospital six days after the vicious attack in Liverpool in 2012.
Evans later told his friend: “I started kicking him, I booted him and now he’s dead,” the court heard.
Will Cornick
Schoolboy Will murdered his teacher Ann Maguire.
Cornick – described as “currently highly dangerous” – stabbed Ann, 61, seven times as she taught a class at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds when he was 15.
He callously said, “I couldn’t give a s***” after stabbing the teacher to death.
Cornick said he had a “sense of pride” after the classroom murder and added: “Everything I’ve done is fine and dandy.”
Daniel Bartlam
Daniel Bartlam was just 14 when he beat his mum to death in a hammer attack copied from Coronation Street.
The teen repeatedly battered Jacqueline’s face and head before setting her body alight.
Schoolboy Bartlam was obsessed with TV soap murder plots and grisly horror movies.
He kept video clips on his computer of violent scenes from Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale, TV drama Trial And Retribution and torture film Saw.
Sharon Carr
Sharon Carr was aged just 12 when she stabbed 18-year-old hairdresser Katie Rackliff 32 times.
Some of the knife thrusts went clean through Katie’s body and diaries seized by police were full of sickening boasts about the murder.
Carr had a history of sadistic violence before the murder and once used a spade to decapitate a dog.
James Fairweather
James Fairweather was this year unmasked as Britain’s youngest serial killer after murdering two strangers — then plotting to slay 15 more victims.
He was just 15 at the time.
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