THIS is the bloodied shovel and TV used by two ‘devil’ teens to torture and
kill a frail alcoholic.
The horrifying images, released by police, show the weapons used by the pair
to carry out their brutal murder.
The girls, aged just 13 and 14, who sent a selfie from inside a police van
after killing tragic Angela Wrightson, were today found guilty of her
murder.
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 cried in the dock as a jury found them both guilty of killing 39-year-old
Angela, who was left with more than 100 injuries after the barbaric and
prolonged assault in December 2014.
The girls, who are now both 15, spent hours beating Ms Wrightson and even
paused halfway through because they were bored.
They posed for a selfie with their bruised and battered victim and posted it
on the Snapchat app with the message “Nah xx”.
When they left the house in Hartlepool, County Durham, in the early hours they
then brazenly phoned the cops for a lift home.
It was then that they took a second Snapchat selfie in the back of the police
van with the message: “In the back on the bizzie van again.”
Mr Justice Globe warned the girls would be detained for life. They will be
sentenced on Thursday.
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Angela’s battered body was found hours later on a settee in her
blood-spattered home by her landlord.
Leeds crown court heard she was stripped naked from the waist down and dirt
had been spread around her private parts.
Prosecutor Nicholas Campbell QC said: “She had been assaulted in 12
separate locations within that room.
“A number of implements were used as weapons. A stick with screws
standing proud of the surface, a TV set, a printer for a home computer, a
coffee table anda shovel. A kettle and metal pan were also used, together
with a glass ceramic vase and a glass ornament.”
The court was told the torture began at around 7.30pm after Angela had been to
a local off-licence to buy cider.
Ninety minutes later the younger girl loaded the first Snapchat selfie.
During the attack Angela is said to have repeatedly begged the pair to stop.
At one stage the 13-year-old rang a friend, who said she heard her tell the
older girl: “Go on smash her head in, bray her, f***ing kill her.”
The friend said she also heard laughter.
The pair are said to have left Angela’s home at 11pm to visit a friend before
returning later to “see if she was dead”.
Today the family of Ms Wrightson paid tribute to her “infectious personality”.
A statement from them said: “Angie was attacked and brutally murdered in her
own home, a place where we all have the right to feel safe.
“Angie’s infectious personality touched the hearts of so many people and it is
those fond memories which we continue to cherish as we attempt to move
forward.”
Detective Chief Supt Peter McPhillips said: “This was a highly unusual
and shocking incident. Throughout almost 25 years of service I have never
come across such a brutal murder committed by such young girls.
“Angela was subjected to a prolonged, sustained attack and the
pathologist identified a significant number of injuries to her body caused
by at least twenty-five blows with weapons.”
Gerry Wareham, of the Crown Prosecution Service, spoke of the lack of remorse
shown by the girls after the murder and said he hoped Miss Wrightson’s
family could now move on.
He said: “In our society it is hard to imagine that two girls of such a
young age could be capable of such violence.
“The attack that the girls committed against Angela Wrightson was brutal
and sustained. One can only imagine the fear and distress that she must have
felt in the final hours of her life.
“Given the severity of their assault on Miss Wrightson, one would expect
the girls to have shown a degree of remorse in the wake of her death.
“Instead, they laughed and smiled while posing for a ‘selfie’, with each
continuing to deny that they had murdered her throughout the investigation
and prosecution of this case.”
Both girls had denied murder.
The older girl admitted to striking Angela but said she did not intend serious
harm.
The younger girl had said she played no part in the assault and did not
encourage her friend.
‘Devils’: How two innocent little girls turned into the Snapchat killers
capable of battering a frail alcoholic woman to death in a vile attack
…and smiling about it after
THE two girls who brutally murdered a frail alcoholic woman in her own home
before posting smiling selfies about it were today branded “devils” by those
that knew them.
The teens, aged 13 and 14 at the time, have been dubbed the “Snapchat killers”
after posting smiling selfies alongside a battered Miss Wrightson and from
the back of a police van following her murder.
As the
pair were found guilty of murder today, the Sun Online can reveal their
dark and troubled past, which began with drugs and alcohol from the tender
age of 11.
The girls — who cannot be named for legal reasons — regularly ran away from
home and were taken in to care when their parents could not cope.
They turned to each other for support developing a strong but unhealthy bond —
they even described themselves as “partners in crime”.
Their hatred of authority figures and love of violence continued to grow until
it erupted in an unimaginable orgy of sadistic brutality in Angela
Wrightson’s living room.
One local in their home town of Hartlepool, Teesside, said: “When I heard
about the horrific ordeal that poor Angela suffered and then heard who had
been arrested it didn’t surprise me one jot.”
Of one girl, another neighbour added: “There was only one was she was
going to turn out.”
Their victim, alcoholic Angela Wrightson, weighed just six-and-a-half stone.
She was a kind-hearted soul who loved dogs and attended church — when sober.
Gangs of local youths would also gather at her house knowing that she would go
and buy them alcohol.
One neighbour said: “She had a sad life really. It was the people she
attracted that were the problem rather than her.
“I don’t care what your background is, you still know the difference
between right and wrong even at that age.
“They might have had a horrific upbringing but they still knew what they
were doing was wrong.”
So just how did the two girls go from an unhappy home to cold blooded
killers?
Girl A
Girl A was born in 2000 to a mum and dad who were both unemployed.
She grew up in a violent household with three sisters — two younger and one
older — none of whom had the same dad as her.
Her sisters’ fathers had all served time in prison and her mother was the
subject of repeated vicious assaults by her dad.
By the time she was 11 she was regularly getting drunk on cheap cider and
taking drugs such as valium and morphine-based prescription painkillers.
She was hanging around the streets in Hartlepool late at night and exhibiting
increasingly disturbed behaviour.
Her mother could not cope so the girl was taken into care — where her violent
tendencies got worse.
She regularly smashed up her room and constantly absconded, often brought back
late at night by fed-up police officers.
One social worker described her as “the most volatile young person”
she had ever worked with.
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service was drafted in to try and draw
up a strategy to deal with her violent rages.
They told her to draw pictures as a way of releasing her anger — so she
sketched one of a smiling long-haired girl stabbing a figure in the chest
with blood pouring out of the wound.
The girl later told police: “It was just what they told me to do to help
my anger.”
Girl A described the attack on Miss Wrightson in harrowing detail. She
revealed the pair used a table and a vase to hit her.
In an sickening reccount of what happening she said: “When she was on the
floor I kicked her in the face twice and in her belly.
“(Younger girl) was kicking her in the face and stamping on her but I
don’t know how many times.
“There was a printer on Angie’s stairs and (younger girl) told me to go
and get it. I kicked it down the stairs and it cracked. (Younger girl)
picked it up and flung it at Angie. It hit her and she went a canny bit
dizzy. She wobbled, she sat down and her face was bleeding.”
Experts reckoned the ordeal of being raised in such a dysfunctional household
triggered a psychological condition which meant she had no concept of the
consequences of violent actions.
The girl herself said: “When I was 14 I thought you could only die if you
got cancer or shot in the head or stabbed in the heart.”
She loved violent rap music and obsessively listened to a song called Dance
With the Devil by Immortal Technique about a young man forced to rape and
kill a woman as a gang initiation ceremony only to discover the victim is
his mother.
On the day that she and her friend murdered Angela Wrightson the girl had gone
to visit her mother, but she was on her way out and didn’t want to spend any
time with her daughter.
The girl pleaded with her until her mother replied: “F*ck off. Why don’t
you go and kill yourself.”
The youngster flew into a rage and had to be taken away by her older sister.
She then went on a drink and drugs binge, downing cider and taking
painkillers, given to her by her mother.
We witnessed first hand the aggressive nature of the girl’s household when we
called to try and interview her mother.
We told the man who answered the door that we just wanted a word with the
girl’s mum and he replied: “I’ve got one word for you – f*ck off.”
Girl B
The younger girl grew up in a more stable household – but only just.
Her parents were together and her father had a full-time manual labour job.
But neighbours told how there were regular violent rows which could be heard
down the street as the girl and her heavy-drinking mother screamed at each
other.
The youngster, an only child 11 months younger than Girl A, quickly went off
the rails and regularly ran away from home.
One neighbour said: “She was allowed to run wild. She would go out
drinking and then to get her home the parents would ring the police to go
looking for her. What a great use of police resources that was.
“People don’t blame parents these days but I do. It’s no surprise she
turned out violent when she had a mother screaming at her for years on end.”
Her parents did make efforts to control their daughter and worked with social
services to try and keep her on the straight and narrow.
But as she got older – and grew closer to Girl A – it became clear they were
fighting a losing battle.
One neighbour said: “Separately they were alright, but together they were
devils.”
Girl B was obsessed with her phone, spending hours on it messaging pals.
She used it throughout the attack on Angela and it was her that posted the
picture from the back of the police van on Snapchat shortly after the
murder.
The first selfie she took that night was at 9pm after the attack started. It
showed the girls smiling in the foreground while Angela stared grimly ahead
in the background, her face already showing the signs of bruising.
She continued to use her phone casually as Angela was being beaten to death.
Girl A told the court: “Angela was sitting on the couch and (Girl B) was
saying to knock her out so I kicked her. (Girl B) said ‘f***ing hell isn’t
she knocked out yet?’…she was on her phone while she was telling me to do
it.”
After beating Angela to death the girls called the police for a lift home and
laughed as Girl B photographed Girl A and posted the image on Snapchat with
the caption “Me and (Girl A) in the back on the bizzie van again.”
A friend said: “She lived on her phone, she would get mad if she couldn’t
have it with her. It was like her whole life was on her phone and she
sometimes didn’t know how to act if she met you face to face.
“She was awkward when there were a few people in a room but if she
talking by phone she was funnier and more chatty.”
A neighbour added: “The girl was taken into care because the mother
couldn’t cope. She was back and forth into care all her life.
“I don’t blame her, I blame the parents.
“The mother used to drink and was always shouting at the girl and arguing
with her.
“I complained about them and shortly after I had a brick through my
window. Another neighbour complained and then she moved away.
“Some neighbours have been involved with road rage incidents with them
and the police have been out a couple of times.
“The mother and daughter were always arguing and people living a few
doors down could hear them.
“There was only one was she was going to turn out.”
Listen: Chilling call giggling Snapchat murder girls made to police trying to
get a lift home after battering frail woman to death
THIS is the sickening call two girls made shortly after murdering a vulnerable
woman in her own home.
The evil pair, aged just 13 and 14, can be heard laughing and joking as they
made a call to police for a lift home following the brutal attack.
In the chilling clip – released on the day they were found guilty of battering
Angela Wrightson to death – the giggling teens ask cops to pick them up.
The call was made shortly after the pair used a shovel, coffee table, kettle
and a screw-studded stick to kill frail Angela.
After leaving the house the sick pair, who were in local authority care,
brazenly phoned the police for a lift home.
It was then they sent a Snapchat selfie in the back of the police van.
One girl tells the emergency operator she is “freezing”, while the other adds:
“I’ve just reported myself missing, me and my friend.”
The same girl goes on to say: “Right I’ve just rang to let the police know
where me and my friend are at, will you tell me how long they’re gunna be
I’m **** freezing and there’s loads of divvies walking past.”
The pair can repeatedly be heard laughing and joking and the operator asks:
“What’s so funny?”
The second girl replies: “Nowt, you’re just a bit funny.”
The early morning call to Cleveland police was released by cops as the girls
were found guilty by a jury of murdering Ms Wrightson.
Both girls wept as verdict was delivered and Mr Justice Globe warned the girls
would be detained for life.
Angela’s body was found on a settee in her blood-spattered home by her
landlord.
She was left with more than 100 injuries after the barbaric and prolonged
assault in December 2014.
The court heard she was stripped naked from the waist down and dirt had been
spread around her private parts.