Mother to spend at least 32 years in jail for killing daughters who ‘got in way of sex life’

AN “evil” mother who murdered her two young daughters after they “got in the way” of her sex life has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 32 years.

Louise Porton (23) was found guilty of killing three-year-old Lexi Draper and 17-month-old Scarlett Vaughan less than three weeks apart last year.

A jury at Birmingham Crown Court convicted her of both murders following a five-week trial.

Jailing Porton yesterday, Mrs Justice Yip described Porton’s actions as “evil” and “calculated”, telling her: “These were blameless young children who were plainly vulnerable and ought to have been able to rely on their

Evil: Louise Porton

mother to protect and nurture them.

“Instead you took their young lives away.”

The judge added: “One way or another you squeezed the life out of each of your daughters, only calling the emergency services when you knew they were dead.

“I am sure at the time of the deaths, you intended to kill each of your daughters. Why you did so, only you will know.”

Porton, who described herself as a “model”, accepted 41 friend requests on a dating app the day after Lexi’s death.

She was described as “calm and emotionless” after Scarlett’s death and delayed calling an ambulance for the youngster, even filling up with petrol as the toddler lay dead or dying in her car.

When Lexi was ill in hospital, just over a week before she died, Porton took topless photos in the toilets and was arranging to perform sex acts for money with a man she had met online.