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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Stephanie Wareham

Violent killer ‘missed at least five meetings with substance misuse worker’

PA Media

A substance misuse worker who met with violent offender Damien Bendall days before he murdered his pregnant partner and three children said he missed at least five earlier appointments to address his drug and alcohol use.

Rebecca Pashley met with Bendall, 33, on September 17 2021, just days before he brutally killed 35-year-old Terri Harris and her children, 13-year-old John Paul Bennett and 11-year-old Lacey Bennett, who he also raped, with a claw hammer at the family home in Killamarsh, Derbyshire.

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