A formal review into probation’s handling of quadruple murderer and violent rapist Damien Bendall has laid bare a string of failures and missed opportunities in the months and years leading up to the Killamarsh killings in September 2021.
Bendall, 33, is serving a whole-life sentence for the murders of his pregnant then-partner Terri Harris, 35, her 11-year-old daughter Lacey Bennett, her son John Paul Bennett, 13, and Lacey’s friend Connie Gent, 11, attacking them with a claw hammer at their home in the Derbyshire village. He also admitted to raping Lacey as she lay dying.
