Lorraine Thorpe was a fifteen year old teen killer who would murder two people in Britain making her the youngest double murderer in British history
According to court documents Lorraine Thorpe was in a relationship with a forty two year old man named Paul Clarke. The two would murder 41-year-old Rosalyn Hunt who was tortured for days before she was finally killed
The next victim was Lorraine Thorpe own father 43-year-old father Desmond Thorpe who was killed to ensure that he did not go to police regarding the murder of Rosalyn Hunt. Desmond Thorpe was smothered before he was repeatedly kicked and struck by the murderous pair
Lorraine Thorpe would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to life with no chance of parole for fourteen years. The first time Lorraine is eligible for parole is in 2023. Paul Clarke would die in prison in 2014
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A double killer, convicted alongside a girl thought to be the UK’s youngest female double murderer, has died.Paul Clarke, 46, was found unconscious at HMP Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire, and could not be revived.He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 27 years after murdering Desmond Thorpe, 43, and Rosalyn Hunt, 41, in Ipswich in 2009.
Their daughter Lorraine Thorpe, was sentenced to a minimum of 14 years for her part in the double-killings.A Prison Service spokesman said: “HMP Whitemoor prisoner Paul Clarke was found unresponsive in his cell by staff on Monday September 1. Paramedics attended but he was pronounced dead shortly before 6.30am.”As with all deaths in custody, the Independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will conduct an investigation.”The bodies of Ms Hunt and Mr Thorpe were found at separate addresses, in Ipswich in August 2009.
Both Clarke and Thorpe had denied the charges and gave no evidence during their trial.
They had repeatedly beaten and tortured Ms Hunt and then smothered Mr Thorpe to death.
Speaking after the hearing, police described the killings as brutal and tragic.
During Thorpe’s sentencing at the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Saunders said she had been influenced by Clarke, the “dominant” member of a group of heavy drinkers, and had been keen to impress him.
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Lorraine Thorpe News
A girl thought to be Britain’s youngest female double murderer has been jailed for life.
Lorraine Thorpe, now 16, of Clapgate Lane in Ipswich, was found guilty in August of murdering her father Desmond Thorpe and a woman called Rosalyn Hunt.
Thorpe, 15 when the murders took place in 2009, was told at the Old Bailey she would serve at least 14 years.
Paul Clarke, 41, also convicted of two murders at Ipswich Crown Court, was sentenced at an earlier hearing
Clarke, of Mountbatten Court, was also jailed for life and told he must serve a minimum of 27 years.
Mr Justice Saunders said Thorpe could be “manipulative” and was not acting entirely under Clarke’s control, adding: “She found violence funny and entertaining.”
The bodies of Ms Hunt and Mr Thorpe were found at separate addresses in Ipswich in August 2009.
Both Clarke and Thorpe had denied the charges and gave no evidence during their trial.
They had repeatedly beaten and tortured Ms Hunt and then smothered Mr Thorpe to death.
The judge said: “Far from being sorry, Lorraine appears to have gloried in it, describing to her friends at one stage how she stamped on Rosalyn’s head.”
He said the only “possible explanation” for her father’s murder was “the fear that he would go and tell the police what happened to Rosalyn Hunt”.
Mr Justice Saunders described the case as “exceptional” and the story of Thorpe “appalling”.
The court heard Thorpe and her father lived in “squalid” flats and sometimes even in tents.
“She was spending all her time with middle-aged alcoholics to whom violence had become normal,” the judge said.
“It had become part of their way of life. The alcoholics fought with each other.
“They stole in order to get the drink they craved.”
Social services could not keep track of her and when she was placed in a school she went back to her father, the judge told the court.
Through drinking the Thorpes met Clarke and lived at his flat for a time.
“She has been left with no real understanding of what is right and what is wrong,” Mr Justice Saunders said.
“To describe her upbringing as not being a proper upbringing would be an understatement but it has left her as a violent young woman and a highly manipulative young woman as well.”
Graham Parkins QC, defending, said: “It was highly inappropriate for this young girl to be playing a role of carer to her drunken and indeed very frail father.
“She never really had much of a chance in life.”
Britain’s youngest female killer, Mary Bell, was held at the age of 11 in 1968 for the manslaughter of two boys aged three and four.
