Kelly Anne Bates
Junko Furuta also had a most horrific death but Kelly Anne Bates falls into the same category.
She was tortured over a 4 week period by her ‘boyfriend’ until she died but not just torture but torture of the most evil nature. What sticks in my mind is that her eyes were gouged out at least 5 days before her death and possible up to the 3 weeks. Subsequently she was stabbed in her empty eye sockets.
An extract from Wikipedia says:
William Lawler, the Home Officepathologist who examined her body, said: "In my career, I have examined almost 600 victims of homicide but I have never come across injuries so extensive."
The following injuries were found on Bates' body:
Scalding to her buttocks and left leg
Burns on her thigh caused by the application of a hot iron
A fractured arm
Multiple stab wounds caused by knives, forks and scissors
Stab wounds inside her mouth
Crush injuries to both hands
Mutilation of her ears, nose, eyebrows, mouth, lips and genitalia
Wounds caused by a spade and pruning shears
Both eyes gouged out
Later stab wounds to the empty eye sockets
Partial scalping
The pathologist determined that her eyes had been removed "not less than five days and not more than three weeks before her death". She had been starved, having lost around 20 kg in weight, and had not received water for several days before her death. Peter Openshaw, the prosecutor in Smith's trial, said: "It was as if he deliberately disfigured her, causing her the utmost pain, distress and degradation ... The injuries were not the result of one sudden eruption of violence, they must have been caused over a long period [and] were so extensive and so terrible that the defendant must have deliberately and systematically tortured the girl." The cause of death was drowning, immediately prior to which she had been beaten about the head with a shower head. Openshaw said that "Her death must have been a merciful end to her torment".
She was only 17 and her short life experienced the most evil imaginable and she is relatively unknown. I wish she was known for more than her death but she never had a chance.
Death must have been such a relief for this poor girl. Continue reading
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