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Sep 1, 2023 · In 1968, Mary Bell of Newcastle, England was only 10 years old when she strangled her first victim, a four-year-old named Martin Brown, then left haunting confession notes for his family. Two months later, Bell killed and mutilated a three-year-old named Brian Howe.
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Mary Flora Bell is a British woman who was convicted in 1968 of the manslaughter of two boys, Martin Brown, 4, and Brian Howe, 3. Bell was 10 years old when she killed Brown and 11 when she killed Howe.
On the afternoon of 31 July 1968, a three-year-old named Brian Howe was last seen by his parents in the street outside his house playing with one of his siblings, the family dog, and Mary Bell and Norma Bell.
Apr 15, 2024 · After serving only 11 years in jail for the brutal manslaughter of 4-year-old Martin Brown, and 3-year-old Brian Howe, she was released at the age of 23.
May 25, 2018 · The four-year-old was to be the youngster’s first victim as two months later she killed three-year-old Brian Howe, on wasteland in Scotswood, carving an ‘M’ into his stomach and...
May 25, 2018 · The killer was just 10 years old when she strangled Martin at a derelict house in the Scotswood area of Newcastle on May 25, 1968. Then on July 31 Bell killed three-year-old Brian Howe on a...
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Jun 10, 2022 · As The New York Times noted in their coverage of the 1998 release of "Cries Unheard" by author Gitta Sereny, Mary Bell served 12 years in prison for the murders of Brian Howe and Martin Brown, shuffling from institution to institution, with an intermittent escape from one of them in 1977.
