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  • Man confesses to killing his teacher wife

    Man confesses to killing his teacher wife

    While their 11-year-old kid slept upstairs in their family home, a man has admitted killing his schoolteacher wife.

    At Derby Crown Court, Conrad Iyayi was on trial for the murder of his wife Kathryn, also known as Katy Harris, after admitting manslaughter.

    But today, on the second day of the court, the 46-year-old admitted to killing his wife by stabbing her seven times in the chest on February 6, 2013, at their house in Littleover, Derby’s Oak Crescent.

    On August 18, he will get his punishment in the same court.

    Mr. Iyayi’s lawyer, Amjad Malik KC, informed the court of his client’s decision and stated: “Yesterday afternoon, when court closed, I went to meet Mr. Iyayi and he indicated what he wants to do. This morning, I have gone through the process with him.

    The jury has been kept waiting for a good reason because Mr. Iyayi wants to enter a guilty plea to murder.

    ‘It is difficult for a defendant to come to the conclusion that they have done something as massive as committing a crime as serious as murder, which you would have been told entails an intention to kill,’ the judge added after thanking the jury for their service.

    It might sometimes be difficult to accept what you have done.

  • Man stabs brother over Lidl incident, kills him

    Man stabs brother over Lidl incident, kills him

    A guy who fatally knifed his brother after an incident at Lidl has been sentenced to prison.

    At their home in Waverley Road, Small Heath, in south-east Birmingham, last year, Lenville Waite fatally stabbed his elder brother Clifton.

    The family reportedly quarrelled that day over a news report that featured a picture of Lenville and linked him to an attack on a security guard at a Lidl. Derby Crown Court was informed of this.

    At one stage, the brothers left the property separately but resumed the quarrel after they had both returned.

    ‘There was some confrontation, probably nothing to do with that, about a fan,’ Judge Shaun Smith KC told the 59-year-old defendant.

    ‘Going back to what you told the police your brother would find fault in quite a few things to start an argument. During the course of that the Lidl incident got brought up again.

    ‘Your brother said you could not do to him what you did to the Somalian, in reference to the security guard knocked to the floor at the shop. Your temper clearly just went at that moment in time.’

    Previously, Lenville had again used a knife to scare his sibling during arguments, the court heard.

    The judge added: ‘I accept initially you picked up the knife in the way you picked it up previously.

    ‘But when your brother was not having that, when he was not going to desist as he had done previously and started wrestling you, that is when you decided, albeit momentarily, you were not going to use it to threaten him, you were going to use it to stab him and you did stab him.

    ‘And it went in the wrong place as far as he is concerned. It could have gone anywhere. It did not. He died very, very quickly.’

    After the 61-year-old’s death, Lenville went on the run, first staying at a homeless shelter in Birmingham city centre.

    He then travelled to Coventry where he bought new clothes from Primark before he was arrested.

    Lenville told police he was ‘glad it is all over’ when he was arrested and was said to give a ‘consistent’ account of the background to the attack over the course of nine interviews.

    The judge concluded the offence was ‘aggravated’ by the use of a knife but he accepted he had not premediated the killing and had an intention to cause ‘really serious harm’ but not an ‘intention to kill’. 

    Following a trial, Lenville was found guilty of murder, and was today sentenced to life with a minimum term of 17 years.

  • Man jailed 21 years for beating his eleven-year old son to death

    Man jailed 21 years for beating his eleven-year old son to death

    For killing his 11-year-old son, a man was given a life sentence in prison.

    In June of last year, Michael Harrison murdered his son Mikey in the vicinity of a park in Heanor, Derbyshire.

    He then dialled 911 and informed the operator that Mikey had fallen out of a tree.

    “At 18 minutes past one on Saturday, June 18, 2022, you started a charade solely intended to protect yourself,” Judge Shaun Smith KC reprimanded the 41-year-old.

    ‘That was because you had attacked your 11-year-old son Mikey. You hit and punched him many times. At least one of those blows was so hard it lacerated his liver.

    ‘Rather than face up to what you had done, you made a call to the ambulance service to report that Mikey had fallen out of a tree.

    ‘What you did that morning ended the life of a little boy and emptied the lives of many others.’

    Harrison was jailed for life at Derby Crown Court with a minimum term of 21 years and six months for the murder.

    Michael Harrison had unleashed a violent attack on his young son (Picture: PA)
    Michael Harrison had unleashed a violent attack on his young son (Picture: PA)

    He had previously pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Mikey during a court hearing, but had denied murder.

    Ambulance crews had been called to the Heanor area last June after receiving a report that Mikey was injured.

    He was taken to hospital where he later died.

  • Killamarsh deaths: Damien Bendall pleads guilty to murder of woman and three children

    Prior to admitting their manslaughter, Damien Bendall, 32, had previously denied killing Terri Harris, 35, and her 11-year-old daughter her 13-year-old son John Paul Bennett, and Lacey’s 11-year-old friend Connie Gent.

    A man has admitted to killing a woman and three kids who were discovered dead at a home in Derbyshire.

    Prior to admitting to their manslaughter, Damien Bendall, 32, had previously denied killing Terri Harris, 35, her 11-year-old daughter Lacey Bennett, her 13-year-old son John Paul Bennett, and Lacey’s 11-year-old friend Connie Gent.

    Bendall made his latest plea as he appeared at Derby Crown Court on Wednesday.

    He has also admitted raping one of the youngsters.

    Terri Harris died along with her children Lacey and John Paul Bennett
    Image: Terri Harris died along with her children Lacey and John Paul Bennett

    Connie Gent. Pic: Derbyshire Constabulary
    Image: Lacey’s friend Connie Gent was also among the victims. Pic: Derbyshire Constabulary

    Ms Harris and the three children were found dead in Chandos Crescent, Killamarsh, near Sheffield, on 19 September last year.

    Bendall, of Chandos Crescent, is said to have committed the murders at some point between 17 September and the time the four victims’ bodies were discovered.