It was one of the more barbaric murders to hit the headlines in recent years.
Two teenage girls entered the home of a vulnerable woman before torturing and brutally bashing her to death over the course of several hours, documenting the crime with selfies.
The pair, now aged 15, sobbed in the dock as a UK jury found them guilty of the December 2014 murder of Angela Wrightson, a 39-year-old alcoholic who was discovered in her living room with more than 100 injuries, 80 of which were to her face and head.
According to The Sun, the Leeds Crown Court heard how the girls, then 13 and 14, sadistically bashed Wrightson with a variety of weapons including a shovel, a kettle, a vase, a photo frame and a stick studded with screws. They also smashed a television on top of her head.
The attack lasted up to eight hours, with the girls apparently even pausing in the middle to take chilling selfie with their bruised and battered victim. The picture was uploaded to Snapchat with the caption, “Nah xx”.
The two girls then brazenly used the police as a taxi service to get themselves home, posing for another selfie in the back of the van.
Wrightson’s body was discovered several hours later by her landlord, naked from the waist down, covered in shards of glass and with dirt smeared around her genitals.
The teenagers had previously visited Wrightson’s home on a number of occasions to collect alcohol and cigarettes that she had purchased for them.
They will be sentenced later this week.
Top Comments
What the hell is happening in the UK? First two women sexually abuse two young girls, now this?
This is exactly the reason we need female only train carriages.
lol, good one
The second sentence starts:
"Two teenage girls entered the home of a vulnerable woman..."
How will female only train carriages prevent a violent murder in someone's home?
Please explain what I'm missing here...
The fact remains that men are by far the most likely perps of crime. Women are particularly vulnerable to male crime. But there you go again with what you think is point scoring but really only proof that you and men like you, are fools.
yeah good one! Makes him look really smart too because men are still much more likely to commit crime and women are subjected to male crime all the time but yeah good one, who cares about women anyway?