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Dec 29, 2020 · Margaret Bates, from Mottram in Tameside, has died, 24 years after her daughter Kelly-Anne Bates was murdered by James Smith, who tortured the teenager over several weeks. The mum of a teenager...
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.
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- How Kelly Anne Bates Fell Into James Patterson Smith’s Trap
- The Gruesome Torture and Murder of Kelly Anne Bates
- James Patterson Smith Faces Justice
One day, Margaret Bates returned home to her house in Hattersley, England to find her 16-year-old daughter, Kelly Anne, standing in the kitchen. Unbeknownst to her mother, Kelly Anne had brought her boyfriend home for the first time. Next came the sound of footsteps on the stairs as the boyfriend, James Patterson Smith, walked into the room. Margar...
The true extent of the abuse only became clear on April 16, 1996, when Smith walked into the Gorton Police Station and said that he’d accidentally killed Kelly Anne Bates after their argument while she was in the bath caused her to drown (how exactly he framed this as an accident to police remains unclear). But when the authorities soon found Kelly...
The case went to trial, during which the prosecutors laid out the torture Bates had endured for the jury. “The physical pain would have been intense,” one prosecutor said, “causing anguish and torment to the point of mental breakdown and collapse.” At the trial, other women that Smith had abused came forwardto paint a picture of a misogynistic man ...
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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).
The walls and ceiling were splattered with blood, and lying motionless on the floor was the body of Kelly-Anne Bates. Kelly-Anne’s autopsy revealed a catalogue of injuries that had been inflicted on her.
