Lucas Markham and Kim Edwards were two fourteen year old teens living in England when they decided to murder her mother and sister
According to court documents Lucas Markham and Kim Edwards believed that her mother was attempting to end their relationship so the fourteen year olds decided to kill her
The two came up with a plan that ended with Lucas Markham stabbing Kim mother Elizabeth, 49, and her younger sister Katie, 13
Following the murder Lucas Markham and Kim Edwards would have sex and then watched the Twilight movie series until police arrived
Lucas Markham and Kim Edwards would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for seventeen years
Lucas Markham and Kim Edwards Case
The couple believed to be Britain’s youngest double murderers have been named, after a judge lifted a ban on identifying them.
Kim Edwards and her boyfriend Lucas Markham murdered Edwards’ mother Elizabeth, 49, and her younger sister Katie, 13, at their home in Spalding, Lincolnshire, in April 2016.
The killers, who were 14 at the time, were both jailed in November.
A bid to stop their names being made public was rejected in the High Court.
Kim Edwards and Lucas Markham were originally jailed for at least 20 years each, but judges have reduced the sentences to 17 and a half years.
Markham, who admitted the killings, used a kitchen knife to stab both victims in the neck a total of ten times as they slept.
Edwards, who helped to plan the “cold, calculated and callous” killings, denied murder, claiming to be suffering a mental abnormality which impaired her ability to form rational judgments, but was found guilty by a jury.
The teenagers were both jailed for life at Nottingham Crown Court in November and told they must serve at least 20 years before being considered for parole.
The court heard Markham walked for around 30 minutes along Spalding’s Coronation Channel to reach Edwards’ home before knocking three times on a bedroom window as a pre-arranged signal that he had arrived.
Kim Edwards then opened a bathroom window to allow Lucas Markham to climb into the house from the roof of a shed, and gave him advice on moving quietly around the property.
Evidence heard in the trial, but unpublished until now, revealed that the couple remained at the house in Dawson Avenue immediately after the killings where they had sex, shared a bath and watched the vampire-themed teen romance Twilight films.
They were discovered and arrested at the home Edwards shared with her mother and sister 36 hours later, having been reported missing to police.
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Lucas Markham And Kim Edwards News
A 15-year-old girl believed to be one of Britain’s youngest double murderers concocted a plan to kill her own mother and sister, it can now be revealed.
Judges have lifted restrictions on reporting how Kim Edwards and her boyfriend, Lucas Markham, carried out the “brutal executions” of dinner lady Elizabeth Edwards, 49, and her daughter Katie as they slept at their home in Spalding, Lincolnshire last April.
The couple, likened to Bonnie and Clyde at trial, had sex, shared a bath and watched four Twilight vampire films as they “revelled” after the killings.
The identities of the couple could not be reported throughout their trial at Nottingham crown court in 2016 because of their age, but restrictions on naming the pair were lifted by three judges at the court of appeal in London
Kim and Lucas, who were both originally given 20-year minimum custodial terms, had them reduced by the judges to 17-and-a-half years each.
The ban on naming the pair was lifted by Sir Brian Leveson, Mr Justice Blake and Mr Justice Lewis.
Leveson said: “In the circumstances of this case, notwithstanding that the appellants are only 15 years of age, we have no doubt that the lifting of reporting restrictions is in accordance with law, pursues a legitimate aim and is a reasonable and proportionate measure … properly balancing the welfare of the appellants … against the article 10 rights of the press and the interests of the public.”
He announced that, as a result of the court’s decision, “the names of these two young people are now capable of being reported”, allowing reporting of the “full facts and circumstances” surrounding the case.
Both defendants were given life sentences for the killings, which were planned in a McDonald’s.
Prosecutor Peter Joyce told Edwards’ trial that her sister and mother were stabbed a total of 10 times in a “cold, calculated and callous” onslaught at their home in Dawson Avenue.
Joyce told jurors that Markham walked for around 30 minutes along Spalding’s Coronation Channel to reach Edwards’ home before knocking three times on a bedroom window as a pre-arranged signal that he had arrived.
Edwards opened a bathroom window to allow Markham to climb into the house from the roof of a shed, and gave him advice on moving quietly around the property.
Det Supt Martin Holvey of Lincolnshire police said: “The murders of Elizabeth and Katie Edwards were horrific and brutal and the whole country shared a sense of shock that two juveniles, who were only 14 years old at the time, could have carried out such a horrendous act.
“I’m sure that sense of disbelief and horror will be deepened now it is known that it was Elizabeth’s own daughter who was responsible for plotting with her boyfriend to carry out the murders.
“Evidence heard in court that was previously restricted can now be reported. These include details about the behaviour and actions of Kim Edwards and Lucas Markham afterwards, which was chilling.
“They remained downstairs in the house, watching TV and eating food, whilst the bodies were upstairs. They showed no remorse at all when they were eventually found by officers and during their police interviews.
“These new revelations about the case will undoubtedly focus attention on Spalding once again and I would like to repeat sentiments I have made earlier, thanking the community for their cooperation throughout the case and paying tribute to the courage of Elizabeth and Katie’s family.
“They have endured a terrible ordeal and faced the additional anguish of knowing that this horrific crime was committed by a family member.”
