Elizabeth and Katie Edwards murders: killers' identities revealed

[Plexie]

This is the case in 2016 where a mother and daughter were murdered in their beds and a teenage girl and boy were found guilty. The names of the killers weren't revealed because of their ages.

The BBC are reporting that the ban on naming the killers has been lifted. The girl killer was the daughter/sister of Elizabeth and Katie. Chilling.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-37907410

@northernlurker - about the other case you mention, do you mean the one in York?

So awful to read. I remember the story but had also presumed it was an underage child who was friends/not friends with one of the children

It was posted on here at the time. Then deleted.

God I'd never have guessed :( so shocking

The automatic thought is she must be mentally ill.

I saw their names on social media at the time, there is another older daughter who posted about it on Facebook.

Truly shocking.

I assumed it was the case. The details seemed to fit. Really awful

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It's not an active case though is it?

Reading the case in full it looks like the boy has a personality disorder and the girl attachment disorder of some sort

Not sure if posted already

Please be aware, it's not an easy read. Upsetting and detailed

www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/markham-edwards-v-the-queen/

Alexander - the deleted posts refer to a different case, which hasn't been to court yet. Not this one.

Ok that makes more sense.

Apologies for deleted posts didn't realise other case was active etc

Thank you for further info on this case below, I will read it now

Sorry MN.

I knew about this. Very sad and shocking.

It was all over the Internet, sadly.

It's really shocking, but agree with others, it was not exactly a well kept secret.

I'm probably just really naive with thinks like this and I didn't read a lot around it when it happened but I do remember reading about a sister the same age as the murders and thinking that poor girl now has no sister or mother as they were killed by her school peers! Never occurred to me it would be her!
It's just so sad

Spalding is a small town. It was no secret.

Now that justice has been done, the matter needs to be left alone so that the surviving family members can get on with as normal a life as possible after such an appalling crime, in a town where everyone will always know to whom they are related.