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AlexisMacabre

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Mary Bell

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was convicted in December 1968 of the manslaughter of two boys, Martin Brown (aged four years) and Brian Howe (aged three years). Bell was ten years old at the time of one of the killings, and eleven at the time of the other.

Bell's mother Betty (born McCrickett) was a prostitute who was often absent from the family home, travelling to Glasgow to work. Mary (nicknamed May)[1] was her first child, born when Betty was 17 years old. It is not known who Mary's biological father was; for most of her life she believed it to be Billy Bell, a habitual criminal later arrested for armed robbery who had married Betty some time after Mary was born. Independent accounts from family members suggest strongly that Betty had attempted to kill Mary and make her death look accidental more than once during the first few years of her life. Mary herself says she was subject to repeated sexual abuse, her mother forcing her from the age of four to engage in sex acts with men.

On 25 May 1968, the day before her 11th birthday, Mary Flora Bell strangled four-year-old Martin Brown. She was believed to have committed this crime alone. Between that time and the second killing, she and her friend Norma Joyce Bell (no relation), age thirteen, broke into and vandalised a nursery in Scotswood, leaving notes that claimed responsibility for the Brown killing. The Newcastle police dismissed this incident as a 'prank'.

On 31 July 1968, the two took part in the death, again by strangulation, of three-year-old Brian Howe. Police reports concluded that Mary Bell had gone back after killing him to carve an "N" into his stomach with a razor; this was then changed using the same razor but with a different hand to an "M". Mary Bell also used a pair of scissors to cut off bits of Brian Howe's hair and to mutilate his genitals. As the girls were so young and their testimonies contradicted each other, what happened has never been entirely clear. Martin Brown's death was initially ruled an accident as there was no evidence of foul play. Eventually, his death was linked with Brian Howe's killing and in August, the two girls were charged with two counts of manslaughter.

On 17 December 1968, Norma was acquitted but Mary was convicted of "manslaughter due to diminished responsibility", the jury taking their lead from her diagnosis by court-appointed psychiatrists who described her as displaying "classic symptoms of psychopathy". She was sentenced to be "detained at Her Majesty's pleasure": effectively an indefinite sentence of imprisonment.[1]

From the time of her conviction onward, Mary was the focus of a great deal of attention from the British press and also from the German Stern magazine. Her mother repeatedly sold stories about her to the press and often gave reporters writings she claimed to be Mary's. Bell herself made headlines when in September 1977, she briefly absconded from Moore Court open prison, where she had been imprisoned since her transfer from a young offender's institution to an adult prison a year earlier.

Bell was released from custody in 1980, having served twelve years, and was granted anonymity to start a new life (under a new name) with her daughter, who was born in 1984. For a time, Bell lived in Cumberlow in South Norwood (a house built by Victorian inventor William Stanley).[2] Bell's daughter did not know of her mother's past until Bell's location was discovered by reporters and she and her mother had to leave their house with bed sheets over their heads.

Bell's daughter's anonymity was originally protected only until she reached the age of 18. However, on 21 May 2003, Bell won a High Court battle to have her own anonymity and that of her daughter extended for life. Any court order permanently protecting the identity of someone is consequently known as a Mary Bell Order.

Bell is the subject of two books by Gitta Sereny; The Case of Mary Bell (1972), an account of the killings and trial, and Cries Unheard: the Story of Mary Bell (1998), an in-depth biography based on interviews with Bell and relatives, friends and professionals who knew her during and after her imprisonment. This second book was the first to detail Bell's account of sexual abuse by her mother, a prostitute who specialized as a dominatrix, and her mother's clients.

The publication of Cries Unheard was controversial because Bell received payment for her participation. The payment was criticised by the tabloid press, and the Blair government attempted to find a legal means to prevent its publication on the grounds that a criminal should not profit from his or her crimes, but the attempt was unsuccessful.

Bell's case (as well as the James Bulger Murder) was used as the basis for a 1999 episode of Law & Order entitled Killerz. Hallee Hirsh played the Mary Bell analogue.

Bell's case was also used as the basis for an episode of the short-lived 2005 series The Inside entitled Everything Nice. Jennette McCurdy played the Mary Bell analogue.

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chiknlipsrfun2eat

Fuck you...I r strongest.
Hey at least starting over's better...I conjectured that Bell's daughter would follow her mother's footsteps, fortunately it wasn't the case.
 

AlexisMacabre

SickBitch
chiknlipsrfun2eat;33718 said:
Hey at least starting over's better...I conjectured that Bell's daughter would follow her mother's footsteps, fortunately it wasn't the case.



shes a born again christian haha!! :p
 

Clockwork

British Cunt.
My opinion on Mary Bell is she should have never been released. If you are going to do fucked up shit like that when you are as young as that God knows what you would be like as an adult.
The only reason she is not doing shit worse then that now is cos she has the coppers watching her and needs to keep a low profile. If that wasnt the case and she was never caught she would seriously be doing one over on people right now.
 

Rosie

Oh dear.
Super Moderator
She's fine, she lives in my home town, her daughter went to the same school as me................
 

Airbornemama

Something Ironic...
This user was banned
I love reading or watching doc's on this sadistic little BITCH!! She was definitely AHEAD of her time!!:eek:
 
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