Steven Miles was a seventeen year old living in the UK who was obsessed with the TV show Dexter.
According to court documents seventeen year old Steven Miles was obsessed with the TV show Dexter and decided he wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone
Steven Miles would focus his warped attention on his girlfriend, seventeen year old Elizabeth Thomas, Miles would stab the teenager repeatedly before dismembering her body
Steven Miles would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for twenty five years
Steven Miles Case
A teenage boy obsessed with a TV serial killer has been jailed for at least 25 years for murdering and dismembering his 17-year-old girlfriend.
Guildford Crown Court heard Steven Miles stabbed Elizabeth Thomas to death before cutting up her body with saws in his bedroom.
He was arrested at the scene in Amy Road, Oxted, Surrey, on January 24.
Jurors heard Miles, 17, who admitted murder, had a fixation with the lead character in the US series Dexter.
He was given a life sentence and told he must serve at least 25 years before being considered for release.
The teenager told his family that a voice in his head named Ed told him to kill someone.
He used tools from his father’s tree surgery business to cut up his girlfriend’s body before wrapping her dismembered limbs and placing them in bin bags.
When Miles’ sister returned to the family’s flat about an hour after the murder, he told her “Ed made me do something bad.”
Psychiatric experts told the court “Ed” was likely to be a manifestation of anxiety, rather than schizophrenia, said BBC South East Home Affairs correspondent Colin Campbell.
Miles had some narcissistic personality traits and showed signs of being on the autism spectrum, and the court was told it was these traits that are likely to have caused the anxiety, he added.
The court was told Miles had a fascination with horror movies and had wanted to copy the actions of Dexter, the main character in an American TV series about a police forensics officer who is also a serial killer.
Prosecutor Philip Bennetts said Miles’ parents, Emma and David Miles, had referred him to his GP and mental health services after he began to self harm in April 2012.
After missing an extended period of school and undergoing support for his condition in October 2013 he was judged as having made good progress and was discharged by the mental health services.
One of his previous girlfriends told police he had described how he was going to kill someone and that on one occasion he tried to strangle her for a matter of seconds.
Judge Christopher Critchlow said: “This is a case of the utmost gravity, the horrific features of which are rarely heard in any court.
“Nothing this court can say or do, no sentence this court can impose can alleviate the pain suffered by Elizabeth Thomas’ family for death in such a terrible manner. There must be a life sentence.”
Elizabeth’s family described her as a “kind, caring, loving and gentle girl”.
She grew up in West Wickham, south-east London, and had been studying at Oxted School for her A-Levels at the time of her death.
Steven Miles jailed for murder of girlfriend Elizabeth Thomas – BBC News
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British teen Steven Miles, 17, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on October 2 after brutally stabbing and dismembering his girlfriend Elizabeth Rose Thomas, 17 in Oxted, Surrey.
Police discovered Thomas’ body on January 24, and determined the cause of death to be a stab wound to the back. Miles was arrested on suspicion of murder. Miles plead guilty to the crime on September 9.
According to Surrey Police, Miles had dismembered Thomas’s body following her death, wrapping up limbs in clingfilm. and had attempted to clean up the crime scene before he was found by a family member. Miles had been reported to be obsessed with the television series “Dexter,” which follows the day-to-day life of trained serial killer Dexter Morgan.
Miles is also diagnosed with an autistic syndrome and reportedly had an alter ego named Ed, who Miles claims made him carry out the heinous murder.
Thomas was described by family members and friends as “‘really pretty, really funny and really kind’ young lady,” according to Surrey Police.
This isn’t the first time the popular television and literary character has inspired real life crime. Mark Twitchell, 35, was convicted of first degree murder of John Brian “Johnny” Altinger in 2011 after he was inspired by the fictional character.
