Youngest couple ever convicted of double murder in Britain: see photos
15-year-old girl found guilty alongside boyfriend of killing dinner lady and daughter in Spalding
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| Elizabeth Edwards and her daughter Katie were killed at their home in Spalding, Lincolnshire (pictured right) |
The pair, who were just 14 at the time, killed dinner lady Elizabeth Edwards, 49, and her teenage daughter, Katie, 13, in a "cold, calculated and pre-planned attack" at their home in Spalding, Lincolnshire.
The boy admitted the two murders, but the girl was convicted following a trial at Nottingham Crown Court.
Neither of the killers, who after the slaughter took a bath and then watched the film Twilight, can be identified because of their age.
The girl, said by a defence psychiatrist to have been suffering from a mental disorder, had denied murdering the victims on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The Crown submitted the youngster was not mentally ill at the time of the killings and is guilty of the "cold, calculated and callous" murder, even though it was the boy who inflicted the fatal stab wounds.
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The 15-year-old girl was alleged by the prosecution to have shown
"sheer brutality and utter contempt" for the victims, helping the boy to
carry out the killings "to the letter" after days of planning.
The girl sobbed softly and wiped
her face with a tissue as she heard the verdict in the glass-panelled
dock at Nottingham Crown Court wearing a black cardigan and black
leggings flanked by a security guard.
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| Forensics officers enter the semi-detached house where the bodies were found |
The court heard the couple shared a "Bonnie and Clyde" view of the
world and the girl was the "driver" behind the brutal slayings.
In the months leading up to the killings the girl wrote in her diary: "there is madness in me" and "death is the only way".
She was described as a "ticking time bomb" fuelled by "sheer contempt and brutality" for her victims.
The sickening plot started as a "joke" but "quickly escalated" when the teens realised they were both serious.
The evil teens agreed to stab their victims through the throat to damage their voice boxes and planned to take 40 paracetamol each after the brutal slayings.
The teenagers will be sentenced at a later date.
In the months leading up to the killings the girl wrote in her diary: "there is madness in me" and "death is the only way".
She was described as a "ticking time bomb" fuelled by "sheer contempt and brutality" for her victims.
The sickening plot started as a "joke" but "quickly escalated" when the teens realised they were both serious.
The evil teens agreed to stab their victims through the throat to damage their voice boxes and planned to take 40 paracetamol each after the brutal slayings.
The teenagers will be sentenced at a later date.
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