Teenage sisters sentenced over plot to kill their grandfather, 89 (with rehab order)

[alp227]

Source: The Guardian

A 16-year-old girl has been jailed and her younger sister given a youth rehabilitation order for their part in a plot to kill their 89-year-old grandfather so they could steal his money.

The elderly man, who suffered from dementia, was attacked with bricks at his bungalow in a village near Winchester, Hampshire.

In the weeks before, some of those involved in the plot had researched how to kill him on the internet using Google searches such as "1,000 ways to die", "poisonous toadstools" and "easiest way to kill an old person".

Last month, the elderly victim's adopted daughter, 49, was jailed for 17 years and her son, 19, was given an indeterminate sentence in a young offenders' institution after being found guilty of conspiracy to murder.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/29/sisters-sentenced-plot-kill-grandfather

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I'd support rehabbing juveniles convicted of theft or vandalism...but conspiracy to murder? Probably an untreatable psychological problem.

[quakerboy]

1. You gotta wonder what

their formative years (all those involved) were like to make this ok in their minds?

Also with access and willingness to look up creative ways to kill an old person, the best they could do was bricks?

People are fucked up.

[Javaman]

3. It's pretty clear in the article how screwed up they were...

"Last month, the elderly victim's adopted daughter, 49, was jailed for 17 years and her son, 19, was given an indeterminate sentence in a young offenders' institution after being found guilty of conspiracy to murder.

The woman's older daughter, 16, was also found guilty of conspiracy to murder and was given a 26-month youth detention order at Winchester crown court. Her younger sister, 14, was given a two-year youth rehabilitation order after she was convicted of wounding with intent, but was acquitted of the conspiracy charge.

A third girl, aged 17 – the 19-year-old son's girlfriend – was also found guilty of the conspiracy charge and sentenced to three years' youth detention.

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The prosecution said the intention was to kill him for his money even though he had generously given cash for cars and horses for the family, which had been squandered."

[Hulk]

2. They must have really loved their grandpa.

This is disgusting, but this IS the society we live in. Sick and twisted. The only real news here is their ages.....16 and younger. This sort of shit is happening all the time in this country. The almighty dollar is the golden idol that Moses found when he returned with the Ten Commandments...if you believe that BS.

[Javaman]

4. Read the whole article. the old guys daughter, age 49, was involved too. nt