WALES’ KILLER TEENS
THEY are truly horrific in their brutality and devastating in the trauma and sadness they’ve inflicted on their victims’ families. But what makes these crimes even more shocking is that those who committed them were either still in school – or barely out of it – when they did it.
What caused them to kill at such a young age – and with such violence? AARON BINGHAM, 18 “I am going to slice you up.” That is what residents of Adamsdown in Cardiff heard shouted in the early hours of July 13, 2017.
Bingham had plunged a knife at least 5cm into the leg of 37-year-old father Sean Kelly, who died from the injuries several days later.
Bingham and Nicholas Saleh, 46, were both riding bikes at around the time of the attack, both of which were found to have traces of blood on them.
Bingham admitted to the police that he had been at the scene to sell cannabis to another man. He said he had picked the knife up and used it in self-defence. However, a Cardiff Crown Court jury rejected that claim.
Mr Kelly’s mother Teresa would say in a statement: “He was my youngest son and my baby. He was no angel but he did not deserve to die the way he did. My life will go on. It will never be the same without Sean.”
Bingham was sentenced to custody for life with a minimum term of 18 years. Saleh, who was found guilty of manslaughter, was jailed for nine years and six months. ASHLEIGH ROBINSON, 19, SACHA ROBERTS, 19, HOLLY ROBINSON, 16
Holly and Ashleigh were dubbed “Judas sisters” for their part in the plot that ended with their father Antoni butchered in bed for money and jewellery.
The retired antiques dealer, 61, from Old Colwyn, was stabbed 15 times as his daughters and their boyfriends tried to get their hands on the contents of his safe.
Ashleigh Robinson, 19, and 16-year-old Holly “supported and encouraged” the frenzied latenight attack on Mr Robinson in July 2010.
The daughters were convicted of murder alongside boyfriends Gordon Harding, 20, and Sacha Roberts, 19.
Holly and Ashley were convicted on the basis of joint-enterprise – which allows several people to be charged with murder even if they had different roles in the killing.
Mr Robinson, who had two other daughters from a previous relationship, suffered wounds to his face, neck and upper body.
The jugular veins on both sides of his neck were severed and he died within minutes of the attack. JOSHUA DAVIES, 16
“There is no doubt in my mind that Rebecca was destined for great things.”
This is what Sonia Oatley said after Joshua Davies was found guilty of murdering her 15-year-old daughter Rebecca Aylward, from Maesteg.
Davies lured his ex-girlfriend into a wood before smashing her skull with a rock the size of a rugby ball in October 2010.
After the pair had broken up, Davies immediately started talking about “killing Rebecca” to friends, who took what he said to be a joke.
He launched an internet hate campaign against her which culminated in hitting her at least six times over the head with a rock and leaving her lying face down on the rain-sodden forest floor, wearing the new clothes she had bought for their date.
He would later use Facebook to feign concern for the missing teen. In one exchange he wrote: “I feel sorry for her mother.”
When asked why, he replied: “Well if I was a parent I’d be worried if my daughter was missing.”
He was found guilty of murder and sentenced to at least 14 years in prison. TINA MOLLOY AND MARIA ROSSI, BOTH 17
“Evil products age.
That’s the description given to Tina Molloy and Maria Rossi, who killed 70-year-old Edna Phillips in July 1992 on the Penywaun estate, near Aberdare, with extraordinary violence.
Molloy and Rossi, who were 17 at the time, strangled the half-blind pensioner with a dog chain, slashed her face with a Stanley knife and broke eggs over her body while high on drink and drugs.
They then tried to scalp their victim. Cardiff Crown Court was told of the modern that Mrs Phillips was mutilated almost beyond recognition.
A day after the horrific attack, Rossi – who had known the victim since she was a baby – boasted about the attack, singing “We have killed Edna” to the tune of The Wizard of Oz.
When sentencing the pair, Mr Justice Scott Baker branded them “evil products of the modern age” after the prosecutor told the court they “literally butchered” the pensioner.
Molloy, who it is believed changed her name following her release from prison, was found dead at a property in Cambridgeshire in May this year. MATHEW HARDMAN, 17
“What I found strangest of all was when he first arrived in prison, he had a huge grin on his face.”
So-called “vampire killer” Mathew Hardman, then 17, killed his 90-year-old neighbour Mabel Leyshon at her home on Anglesey in 2001.
In an absolutely horrifying attack, Hardman, who worked as her paperboy, had cut open her chest with a kitchen knife, removed her heart and drunk her blood.
Pokers were placed at her feet in the shape of a cross and her body was mutilated. She was found with 22 stab wounds.
He was jailed for a minimum of 12 years after a trial at Mold Crown Court.
One of the psychiatric nurses who treated him would later say: “The first thing that struck me was that Hardman was fresh-faced, well spoken, and nothing like what the general public may consider a murderer to look like.
“What I found strangest of all was when he first arrived in prison, he had a huge grin on his face.
“Now, most 17-year-olds I know of would be scared to death when arriving at prison having been charged with murder.
“When I asked him how he felt, he said, ‘ This is the most exciting thing ever to have happened to me.’” ”