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Sophie Corcoran & Katie Weston

Evil killer who murdered pregnant mum and three kids at sleepover will die behind bars

A depraved killer who murdered a pregnant mum and three children at a sleepover will die behind bars.

Damien Bendall, 32, was handed a whole life order for killing his 35-year-old girlfriend Terri Harris, her 11-year-old daughter Lacey Bennett, her son John Paul Bennett, 13, and Lacey's friend Connie Gent, also 11, at a home in Derbyshire.

He had also pleaded guilty to raping Lacey in the "brutal, vicious and cruel attacks", in which he murdered each victim in a different room using a claw hammer, the court heard.

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