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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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7 August 1968; 56 years ago (1968-08-07) Mary Flora Bell (born 26 May 1957) [3] is an English woman who, as a juvenile, killed two preschool-age boys in Scotswood, an inner suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1968. [4] Bell committed her first killing when she was ten years old.
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.
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 mutilating...
Mary Bell is said to have strangled the boys, aged four and three, "solely for the pleasure and excitement of killing". The jury heard Mary, also known as May, was suffering from diminished...
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.
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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.
