He is pure evil. Not victim blaming at all, but personally, I would pause for thought before getting involved with someone with his type of violent criminal history, especially with children around.
I hate to think about what else happened in that house before the murders. Did they feel safe around him? Did he ever do anything to hurt Lacey before this attack?
It is an absolutely heartbreaking story.
Wow. He’s just evil then… so senseless, so awful."CPS debunked killer's claims of medical impairment
Bendall's defence put forward theories that his judgement was psychologically impaired.
He later claimed his actions were influenced by a brain injury sustained some years ago. Extensive neurological tests did not show to be the case.
Throughout the process, the CPS instructed its own
medical experts to assess whether the arguments had merit, which they did not.
When all medical angles had been exhausted, the evidence that he had murdered all four victims with no impairment to his actions was overwhelming and Bendall admitted all charges."
So, this mystery about his health condition has been explained.
RIP to all victims
'Truly evil' sleepover killer will die behind bars in whole life term
A boyfriend who murdered his pregnant partner and three young children casually told police what he had done in chilling footage released today after he was jailed for life.www.dailymail.co.uk
This case took a while to come to court, apparently due to checking the medical claims, and as frustrating as that has been, it does seem that they’ve been thorough in dismissing the idea that a brain injury etc had any real impact on Bendall’s actions."CPS debunked killer's claims of medical impairment
Bendall's defence put forward theories that his judgement was psychologically impaired.
He later claimed his actions were influenced by a brain injury sustained some years ago. Extensive neurological tests did not show to be the case.
Throughout the process, the CPS instructed its own
medical experts to assess whether the arguments had merit, which they did not.
When all medical angles had been exhausted, the evidence that he had murdered all four victims with no impairment to his actions was overwhelming and Bendall admitted all charges."
So, this mystery about his health condition has been explained.
RIP to all victims
'Truly evil' sleepover killer will die behind bars in whole life term
A boyfriend who murdered his pregnant partner and three young children casually told police what he had done in chilling footage released today after he was jailed for life.
Yes, I think people speculated here that perhaps he was caught sexually assaulting Lacey, maybe by Connie, and that triggered the murders — that is horrific but would make sense, but it sounds like he attacked Lacey and raped her while she was dying, so the details that have come out actually seem worse. I’ve also seen one report that says he raped Lacey twice, in two different rooms of the house. I just can’t get my head around how evil these crimes are.
I hear you. I am a parent and super nervous about sleepovers. I know someone who was sexually molested as a young teen at a sleepover by a friend’s step-father. The friend was molested repeatedly for months by her step-father. The step-father was the friend’s mother’s 3rd husband and her response was to get a divorce, which was right, and also switch the races of the men she dated - yes, I’m serious… it had devastating impacts for the girls with one turning to drugs and at 30 still has a very chaotic life. She might have anyways but that didn’t help at all.Yes, I think people speculated here that perhaps he was caught sexually assaulting Lacey, maybe by Connie, and that triggered the murders — that is horrific but would make sense, but it sounds like he attacked Lacey and raped her while she was dying, so the details that have come out actually seem worse. I’ve also seen one report that says he raped Lacey twice, in two different rooms of the house. I just can’t get my head around how evil these crimes are.
There was some speculation that Terri had moved to get away from Bendall or upon her move, wanted a fresh start away from him, but he wound up following her and then they reconciled. The Daily Mail suggests this is the case.
Boyfriend admits raping partner's daughter before murdering family
This is the haunting last picture of two school friends hours before they were murdered as a sleepover massacre at a family home.www.dailymail.co.uk
I have to say that if I were a parent, the circumstances of this case would make me more nervous about allowing my child on sleepovers. I would not allow certain people into my home; violent men for example, but other people evidently have different ideas of the standard of risk they’d expose children to. It now occurs to me that whilst murder is rare, some offenders might see a sleepover as an opportunity to carry out abuse. I think this is how Rolf Harris had access to his victim who was his daughter’s friend.
I also see Bendall claims to have “no memory” of the murders. Given he knew perfectly well what he had done immediately afterwards and told officers he had killed four people, I don’t believe he then forgot what happened again. I think he simply didn’t want to answer questions about it (which is also I think why he pleaded guilty).
"The ex-con said: 'I was in prison with Damian Bendall in 2018. He had a huge drug problem even inside prison, obviously drugs are readily available in prison.'
'I remember one time he was hanging off my shoulder whilst high on Spice asking me to put him in his cell so the guards didn't find him and increase his sentence.' "
Ex-cellmate of Damien Bendall reveals child killer was hooked on spice
EXCLUSIVE: The twisted 32-year-old feared the authorities would increase his sentence if he was caught smoking the highly addictive drug, former prisoners have revealed.
It's even worse than that. He killed them with a clawfoot hammer, carried that poor child upstairs to her mother's bed and assaulted her there, next to her dead mother.
