Man murders mum and three children before raping girl as she was dying
dailyrecord.co.ukA man killed a mum and her three children before raping a girl as she was dying from the brutal attack. Damien Bendall, 32, has admitted to murdering girlfriend, Terri Harris, and her teenage kids, reports the Mirror.The 32-year-old's spree saw him killing his partner, alongside her 11-year-old daughter, Lacey Bennett, her son John Paul Bennett, 13, and Lacey's friend Connie Gent, also 11.
He also pleaded guilty to raping Lacey in the "brutal, vicious and cruel attacks" in Derbyshire. Derby Crown Court heard today that the Bendall's attacks attacks unfolded at the Harris' family home last year.
Prosecutor Louis Mably KC said: "The defendant brutally and viciously murdered his then partner, Terri Harris, who is aged 35 - and was in the early stages of pregnancy."He also murdered Terri's two children, by a previous partner, her 13-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter Lacey, and he murdered Connie Gent, also aged 11.
She was a friend of Lacey's who just happened that evening to be staying at Lacey's house for a sleepover."Mr Mably said the attacks "were of such ferocity" that the victims "skulls were smashed in".
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