Lucas Markham and Kim Edwards Twilight Killers

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Lucas Markham and Kim Edwards were two teens from the United Kingdom that are known as the Twilight Killers who murdered Kim’s mother and sister

According to court documents Lucas Markham and Kim Edwards believed that Kim’s mother wanted them to end their relationship so they decided to murder her

Lucas Markham and Kim Edwards would attack the mother first stabbing her to death and then would stab to death Kim’s younger sister

After the murders the young couple would have sex and watch the movie Twilight hence their nicknames

Lucas Markham and Kim Edwards would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for seventeen years

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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.

Edwards and 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.

Edwards then 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.

Evidence heard in the trial, but unpublished until now, revealed that the couple remained at the house in Dawson Avenue immediately after the killings where they had sex, shared a bath and watched the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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