Secret life of sadistic killer Jemma Lilley
news.com.au
Candace Sutton
JANUARY 9, 2018 7:34pm
‘[...] Lilley, more so than Lenon, whose life was a dress rehearsal for this terrible murder.
In Lilley’s sick mind, 18-year-old Aaron Pajich’s cruel murder was a glamorous fantasy with her as a serial killer star.
The young, tattoo-covered motorbike riding British immigrant may have worked a humble job in a Perth supermarket but she held secret obsessions — for suffocation, castration, force feeding, whipping and scalping. Her ghastly stash of weapons, tools and images reveal she believed she was starring in her own murder movie.
Lilley grew up in England and as her former stepmother Nina Lilley revealed, was sinister and odd as a child, obsessed with serial killers and murder.
Nina, from Stamford in Lincolnshire, lived with her then husband Richard and stepdaughter Jemma until the relationship broke down. She left the family home because she was so disturbed by Lilley’s behaviour, which seemed to worsen before she left the UK, The Sun newspaper reported. Jemma was dyslexic, but determined and eventually finished writing a violent and disturbing book.
“The book she wrote was a big problem, it was called Playzone, about this character SOS and I found it very disturbing,” Nina said. “At the beginning I said, ‘Fair enough, you want to write a horror story’, but I didn’t like the contents of it.
“It was all about torture and very violent and no empathy for the victims.
“She always had an obsession with serial killers as a teenager but she said it was a way of venting her frustration.”
Jemma, who lacked personal warmth or emotion, was passionate or at least determined to get Playzone published. In reality, it was 200 pages of badly written prose littered with spelling mistakes and repetitive scenes of pain and torture.
Nina said Jemma, who was fixated by knives, would talk about Playzone’s main character, a serial killer called SOS, and quote from the book — talk that always put Nina “on edge”.
SOS is named after Son of Sam, serial killer David Berkowitz, who murdered six people in a 1970s killing spree which terrified New York.
One passage from Playzone reveals bloodlust, and a desire for power and notoriety.
“I feel as though I cannot rest until the blood or the flesh of a screaming, pleading victim is gushing out and pooling on the floor, “ the passage reads.
“Until all the roads and streets are streamed red and abandoned and the fear in the back of everyone’s minds and on the tongue of each human that’s left standing is SOS.”
SOS was the charismatic leader of a “murder cult” of devotees called maggots who tortured and murdered to please him.
Jemma hoped Playzone, written under the pseudonym Syn Demon, would make her rich and inspire a cultish computer game. In the book, SOS wore a scary lead mask, a version of which Nina said Lilley’s father Richard helped his daughter make.
Between the age of 11 and 16, Jemma attended Casterton Business and Enterprise College 20km from Stamford in Rutland, where she studied gaming design.
It would later emerge that the highly intelligent but socially awkward Jemma would unnerve many with her presence, and she was advised to “see somebody”.
In 2010, at 18 years of age, Lilley packed up and flew to Australia on a two-year visitor visa.
In Perth’s outer suburbs, Jemma met a gay Australian man, Gordon Galbraith, who agreed to marry her to help secure permanent residence.
The two were friends, with Lilley nicknaming Galbraith “Gacy”, because she claimed he resembled American serial killer, John Wayne Gacy.
Her arrival in Australia inspired Lilley to write on her favourite topic for the US magazine Serial Killer, contributing stories on historic Perth killer, Eric Edgar Cooke and the perpetrator of the Port Arthur massacre, Martin Bryant.
She continued to spruik Playzone, which had its own Facebook page.
Lilley posted online in 2011: “Let me introduce you to your friendly neighbourhood serial killer ... SOS, what better reasons for pure white snow in England”.’
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