Britain's Deadliest Kids
"Britain's Deadliest Kids" is a television series that investigates the stories of young people who have committed murder, exploring the circumstances that led to their actions and whether these could have been avoided. The show features various documentaries covering tragic incidents involving children and teenagers who committed violent acts, such as stabbings, and examines the backgrounds and motivations of these young offenders.
A tragic true crime case featured in series like Britain's Deadliest Kids. Rebecca Aylward, a 15-year-old girl from Maesteg, Wales, was murdered in 2010 by her 16-year-old ex-boyfriend, Joshua Davies. He lured her into woodland near Aberkenfig and attacked her with a rock, causing fatal head injuries. The murder was described by the courts as senseless and barbaric, driven by what the judge called a "deep-seated hatred." Joshua Davies was found guilty of murder by a jury and sentenced to a minimum of 14 years in prison.
Elizabeth and Katie Edwards, a mother and daughter, were brutally murdered in Spalding, Lincolnshire in 2016 by a teenage couple both aged 14. The couple planned to kill them by stabbing through the victims' voice boxes to prevent cries for help. Elizabeth Edwards was stabbed eight times, with wounds indicating she tried to defend herself, while Katie, aged 13, was stabbed twice in the neck and smothered with a pillow. After the killings, the teenagers stayed in the house for over a day and displayed chilling behavior.
James Attfield and Nahid Almanea were victims of two brutal murders committed in Colchester, Essex, in 2014. James Attfield, a 33-year-old man with a brain injury, was found stabbed over 100 times in Castle Park while lying drunk and defenseless. Nahid Almanea, a 31-year-old Saudi student at the University of Essex, was killed three months later while walking along a nature trail; she was stabbed in the abdomen and deliberately stabbed through both eyes to injure her brain.
Daniel Bartlam was 14 years old when he murdered his mother, Jacqueline Bartlam, in their Nottinghamshire home in April 2011. He beat her seven times with a claw hammer, fracturing her face and skull, and then set fire to her body and the house in an attempt to cover up the crime. Daniel had planned the murder, inspired by a "Coronation Street" soap opera plot involving a similar killing. Despite initially lying about an intruder, police found a detailed murderous fantasy he had written on his computer.
Michael Hamer was a 14-year-old boy who brutally murdered 11-year-old Joe Geeling, a cystic fibrosis sufferer, in Greater Manchester. Hamer lured Joe to his home using a forged letter from school staff, then assaulted him with a frying pan and stabbed him 16 times before dumping his body in a wooded ravine in 2006.
Sharon Carr, known as "The Devil's Daughter," is Britain's youngest female murderer. At just 12 years old in June 1992, she brutally murdered 18-year-old Katie Rackliff in Camberley, Surrey, stabbing her 32 times in a violent, seemingly random attack. Initially, the case went unsolved because police believed the attacker was an adult male due to the brutality and sexual mutilation of the victim. Two years later, Carr stabbed a fellow school pupil, which led to her arrest and subsequent conviction in 1997. She showed no remorse and even boasted about the murder, describing a sexual thrill from killing.