U.K. Teen Convicted of Killing Widow
Date: Friday, August 02 @ 11:17:39 BST
Topic: In the News
LONDON (AP) — A teenager who prosecutors said wanted to be a vampire was convicted Friday of fatally stabbing an elderly woman, cutting out her heart and drinking her blood.
``You hoped for immortality, but all you have achieved is the brutal ending of another person's life and the bringing of a life sentence upon yourself,'' said the judge, Sir Stephen Richards.
A jury at Mold Crown Court found Mathew Hardman, 17, guilty of slaying 90-year-old widow Mabel Leyshon at her home in the north Wales town of Llanfairpwll last Nov. 24.
He was ordered detained ``at Her Majesty's pleasure'' — a sentence that applies to juveniles convicted of murder and carries a minimum 12-year prison term.
Richards said the murder was ``an act of great wickedness.''
During the two-week trial, prosecutor Roger Thomas said Hardman was obsessed by ``his two main questions — how do I become a vampire and how do I become immortal?''
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