Laura48
07-17-2002, 6:20pm
I think I'm going to throw up ... :sad:
LONDON (AP) - A teenager obsessed with vampires killed an elderly neighbor and drank her blood because he believed that would make him immortal, prosecutors said Tuesday at the start of his murder trial.
The 17-year-old youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of killing 90-year-old widow Mabel Leyshon at her home in Llanfair in north Wales on Nov. 24.
He denies the charge.
Prosecutors said Leyshon's chest was ripped open and her heart removed, wrapped in newspaper and placed in a saucepan on top of a silver platter. Blood was drained from her legs, probably for drinking, prosecutors told the jury at Mold Crown Court. Two fireplace pokers were left crossed at her feet.
Prosecutor Roger Thomas said the teenager was obsessed by "his two main questions — how do I become a vampire and how do I become immortal?"
The defendant decided "a sacrifice, the murder of another human being, was necessary," Thomas said. With his parents away, the youth committed a "planned, deliberate murder to satisfy his own grotesque and selfish ends," he said.
The prosecution said the teen entered Leyshon's house by breaking glass in the back door and attacked her from behind as she watched television, stabbing her 22 times and removing her heart.
Thomas said the defendant "was fascinated by" vampires.
"He believed they existed, believed they drank human blood, and believed most importantly that they could achieve immortality — and he wanted to be immortal. What may have started out as a bizarre interest became an obsession and led ultimately to murder."
Thomas said the youth had been arrested a month before the killing after using force to get a 16-year-old German exchange student he believed was a vampire to bite his neck so that he, too, could become a vampire.
Source (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=518&u=/ap/20020716/ap_on_re_eu/britain_vampire_killing_2&printer=1)
LONDON (AP) - A teenager obsessed with vampires killed an elderly neighbor and drank her blood because he believed that would make him immortal, prosecutors said Tuesday at the start of his murder trial.
The 17-year-old youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of killing 90-year-old widow Mabel Leyshon at her home in Llanfair in north Wales on Nov. 24.
He denies the charge.
Prosecutors said Leyshon's chest was ripped open and her heart removed, wrapped in newspaper and placed in a saucepan on top of a silver platter. Blood was drained from her legs, probably for drinking, prosecutors told the jury at Mold Crown Court. Two fireplace pokers were left crossed at her feet.
Prosecutor Roger Thomas said the teenager was obsessed by "his two main questions — how do I become a vampire and how do I become immortal?"
The defendant decided "a sacrifice, the murder of another human being, was necessary," Thomas said. With his parents away, the youth committed a "planned, deliberate murder to satisfy his own grotesque and selfish ends," he said.
The prosecution said the teen entered Leyshon's house by breaking glass in the back door and attacked her from behind as she watched television, stabbing her 22 times and removing her heart.
Thomas said the defendant "was fascinated by" vampires.
"He believed they existed, believed they drank human blood, and believed most importantly that they could achieve immortality — and he wanted to be immortal. What may have started out as a bizarre interest became an obsession and led ultimately to murder."
Thomas said the youth had been arrested a month before the killing after using force to get a 16-year-old German exchange student he believed was a vampire to bite his neck so that he, too, could become a vampire.
Source (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=518&u=/ap/20020716/ap_on_re_eu/britain_vampire_killing_2&printer=1)