An 11-year-old girl who was tragically murdered at her friend's home was meant to return home the evening she lost her life but asked her mother for permission to stay over another night. Connie Gent had been staying at her friend Lacey Bennett's house in Killamarsh, Derbyshire last year on September 19 when Damien Bendall, 32 killed both of the youngsters.
Today Bendall admitted to the murder of his 35-year-old pregnant girlfriend, Terri Harris. her daughter Lacey, 11, her son John Paul Bennett, 13 and Connie who had been over for a sleepover, the Mirror reports. The twisted killer who murdered the family and the children's friend also pleaded guilty to raping Lacey during the 'brutal. vicious and cruel attacks'.
The court heard the twisted killer smashed the victim's skulls using a claw hammer and then left the scene to trade in John Bennett's Xbox console for drugs. Bendall, who has been sentenced to jail for the rest of his life, told police he had consumed around 'three to four bags of cocaine and then blacked out'.
