Battered face of psycho killer shows how youngster Kayleigh Haywood desperately fought ‘like a tiger’ during brutal attack
Schoolgirl smashed her killer in the face with a brick as she was dragged to her death
A KILLER’S battered face shows how schoolgirl Kayleigh Haywood fought him like a tiger before she was raped and murdered.
Police took the mugshot of “psycho bully” Stephen Beadman soon after his arrest.
Beadman, 28, faces jail after he admitted battering teenager Kayleigh Haywood to death.
Despite admitting killing and raping the teen, he and twisted neighbour Luke Harlow denied holding her captive.
This week they were both convicted of false imprisonment at Nottingham Crown Court and will be sentenced together on Friday.
The jury heard how tragic Kayleigh fought for her life and smashed her killer in the face with a brick as Beadman led her to her death.
Police released a mugshot of Beadman's face covered in scratches from when brave Kayleigh fought back.
Rage like a volcano
BEADMAN would often fly into uncontrollable rages, his step-brother revealed.
John Shipley, 20, said: “If anyone ever said no to him he would erupt like a volcano.”
John had lived in fear of the thug for years when his dad Andrew lived with the would-be killer's mum Lisa and they had a daughter together.
Beadman once punched a hole in a wall after his mum told him to change the TV channel.
John, of Market Harborough, Leics, said: "Stephen was completely hateful towards me at every moment I was with him.
"Dad told me to just steer clear of him as much as I could because everyone knew he was trouble.
"Beadman would sit in a room saying nothing but his attitude and vile stare would chill the place.
"I never knew him to have a girlfriend or show any interest in girls and people thought he might be gay.
“He was always a disaster waiting to happen because of his temper.”
John said "sicko" Beadman also had vile habits that disgusted his mother and other siblings.
He said :"He was a disgusting creature who only though of himself.
"When his mother bought in the shopping Beadman would grab any new packet of chocolate biscuits and deliberately lick every one of them in front of the rest of us and put them back in the packet so he would have them all to himself.
"He would also deliberately spit in any new carton of orange juice so we couldn't drink it. He would laugh while he was doing it."
Witnesses had seen her fleeing into the night "half naked" before he dragged her to woodland near a railway track and battered her to death with a rock.
Harlow had already admitted grooming the schoolgirl with sexually charged messages on Facebook and lured her to meet them at his home.
The evil pair had denied holding her prisoner, saying Kayleigh was there of her free will.
Chief Crown Prosecutor Janine Smith said: "The death of Kayleigh Haywood was devastating.
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"She suffered a terrifying ordeal at the hands of Stephen Beadman.
"She was only in that position because she had been groomed by Luke Harlow before being kept against her will.
"Beadman callously raped and took the life of an innocent teenage girl.
"Harlow pursued a succession of under-age girls in a sinister manner, talking about 'kidnapping' them and making them 'slaves'.
"I would like to offer my heartfelt sympathy to Kayleigh's family and I hope the conviction of these highly dangerous men will in some way help them start to cope with their loss."
Kayleigh, from Measham, Leics, was last seen on November 13 after being dropped off outside Ibstock Community College.
She had told her mum she was going to stay with a friend for the weekend.
In fact, she had been groomed by the sick pair on Facebook and Whatsapp and convinced her to meet them.
She rang her parents the next day but later a text message was sent from her phone to a friend reading: "Help".
A day later he phone was turned off and her family reported her missing.
How sick pair of sexual predators lured Kayleigh Haywood to her death
October 31: Luke Harlow begins grooming Kayleigh Haywood on Facebook and WhatsApp
November 13, 6pm: Kayleigh's dad drops her outside Ibstock Community College. Kayleigh tells her parents she is staying with a friends
November 14: Kayleigh speaks to her parents on her iPhone in the morning
November 15: Between 3am and 3.30am, a witness sees her being pinned to the ground by a man. A loud frightened scream of "mummy" is heard by another witness as Kayleigh is attacked by Stephen Beadman and then killed in woodland. At 9.30am Kayleigh's smashed iPhone is found on a main road near the defendant's homes. A passer-by who finds the uses the Sim card to dial the last number called and gets through to a friend of Kayleigh
November 16: Detectives arrest Harlow and Beadman in connection with Kayleigh's disappearance
November 17: Police appeal for information. Kayleigh’s parents Stephanie Haywood and Martin Whitby, make an emotional appeal for her to come home
November 18: Leicestershire Police announce that officers are treating the disappearance of Kayleigh Haywood as murder after finding items of clothing. At around 10pm police find Kayleigh's body in undergrowth
November 19: Leicestershire Police charge Beadman, then aged 28, with the murder of Kayleigh Haywood. Harlow, 27, is accused of grooming and two counts of sexual activity with a child
November 24: An inquest finds Kayleigh's died from head and facial injuries
January 18: Kayleigh’s funeral takes place in Measham
April 4: Beadman appears via videolink at Leicester Crown Court where he admits the rape and murder. Harlow pleads guilty to one count of sexual grooming and two counts of sexual activity with a child
June 27 and 28: Beadman and Harlow are convicted of holding Kayleigh prisoner in the hours before she was murdered
Hundreds of local residents joined police in the search to find her.
Cops discovered her body five days later near Sence Valley Forest Park.
Her family were emotional on the steps of the court today as mum Stephanie, 37, read a tribute to Kayleigh.
She said: "We cannot begin to find the words to describe how we feel or how we continue to get through each minute of every day.
"We lost our beautiful, precious little girl Kayleigh who we will never see again.
"We miss Kayleigh every minute of every day, as do her brothers and sister.
"We are all heartbroken and devastated, our hearts have been torn apart.
"We ask ourselves every day, why? Why Kayleigh? Why did this happen to our beautiful daughter?
"Now we have got justice for our beautiful daughter.
"But that doesn’t change anything for us. We have to live with this heartache forever."
Thanking the police and prosecutors for their support and comfort, Ms Haywood added: "Without them there would be no justice or punishment for the two people who so heartlessly took away our beautiful daughter Kayleigh.
"Our biggest thank you has to go to the Leicestershire Police force.
"They worked so hard and tirelessly day after day, night after night to find our daughter, a task we know no officer relished, and they were with us every step of the way, giving us the strength and support that we so desperately needed at the saddest time in our lives.
"Just saying thank you to them all will never seem enough."
Kayleigh's mum, Stephanie Haywood, pays tribute to her daughter in a heartfelt family statement
"We cannot begin to find the words to describe how we feel or how we continue to get through each minute of every day.
We lost our beautiful, precious little girl Kayleigh who we will never see again.
We miss Kayleigh every minute of every day, as do her brothers and sister.
We are all heartbroken and devastated, our hearts have been torn apart.
We ask ourselves every day, why? Why Kayleigh? Why did this happen to our beautiful daughter?
Now we have got justice for our beautiful daughter.
But that doesn’t change anything for us. We have to live with this heartache forever."
THANKING THE POLICE:
"Without them there would be no justice or punishment for the two people who so heartlessly took away our beautiful daughter Kayleigh.
Our biggest thank you has to go to the Leicestershire Police force.
They worked so hard and tirelessly day after day, night after night to find our daughter, a task we know no officer relished, and they were with us every step of the way, giving us the strength and support that we so desperately needed at the saddest time in our lives.
Just saying thank you to them all will never seem enough."
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