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Kelly Anne Bates (18 May 1978 – 16 April 1996) was an English teenager who was murdered in Manchester, England at the age of 17 by her abuser, James Patterson Smith (born c. 1948). [3][4] She was tortured by him over a period of four weeks, including having her eyes gouged from their sockets up to three weeks before her death, before being ...
It was a quiet morning at the Manchester police department on 16th April 1995, when a man appeared in the foyer. He asked to speak with a police officer before adding that he had a confession to make: He had just killed his girlfriend. Kelly Anne Bates was a teenage girl from Hattersley, Manchester.
At age 17, Kelly Ann Bates was held hostage for over four weeks by James Patterson Smith. She was groomed and moved in with him. During the month James held Kelly hostage, he tortured her by gouging both of her eyes out from the socket and beating the girl before he drowned her in a bathtub.
Apr 4, 2023 · On April 16, 1996, Kelly Anne Bates died at the age of just 17 after four excruciating weeks of torture at the hands of her boyfriend James Patterson Smith. Her mid-40s boyfriend stabbed, burned, and mutilated her for weeks before finally killing her.
Feb 15, 2018 · On 16 April, 1996, 17-year-old Kelly Anne Bates was drowned in a bath tub, after suffering four weeks of constant torture at the hands of her 48-year-old “partner,” James Patterson Smith, who had started grooming the Manchester schoolgirl when she was just 14-years-old.
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Apr 6, 2022 · Despite the overwhelming evidence of his torture, James maintained Kelly’s death happened on accident, and that her injuries were self-inflicted. At the trial, James continued to declare his innocence. He claimed Kelly “would put me through hell winding me up.”
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In a case police described as the worst example of abuse they had ever seen, April 1996 saw the horrific torture and murder of 17-year-old Kelly-Anne Bates at the hand of her boyfriend of three years, 49-year-old James Patterson Smith.
