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27/10/92 - Pure Evil
By CLIVE CRICKMER
Daily Mirror
A SEX monster branded "pure evil" by a police
chief was jailed for life yesterday for the brutal murder
of a seven year-old boy he befriended. Jobless bachelor
Richard Blenkey, 33, changed his plea to guilty after
detectives learned of an amazing confession he wrote to
a penpal from jail only 11 days before his trial.
The depraved loner had stubbornly denied strangling little
Paul Pearson with red twine in an allotment chicken hut.
But his resolve began to crack when he replied to 36 letters
sent by a stranger who has repeatedly written to people
in notorious cases. Blenkey poured out his heart and admitted
that he was the killer.
He stood expressionless in the dock at Teesside Crown
Court as Mr Jus tice Blofield recommended that he should
stay behide bars for at least 20 years. The judge said
Blenkey showed a "morbid interest in young boys".
He committed "appalling murder" after luring
Paul into the hut for his sexual gratification. He befriended
Paul, whose family had moved only a fortnight earlier
from Thornaby, Cleveland, to a new home in Marske 15 miles
away.
Ironically his parents, Ken and Julie, moved to the small
seaside town because they thought it would be SAFER for
their four children. And last night the couple said Blenkey
should be hanged. Electrician Ken, 31, declared: "The
punishment should fit the crime. He killed Paul and should
pay for it with his life "
Julie, also 31, added: "The death penalty should
be brought back for crimes like this a life for a life.
The world would be a safer place to bring up children."
Paul got to know Blenkey through a friend whose father
had the adjoining allotment. He gave him peas as a reward
for picking vegetables and even met the little boy's mum.
She did not realise he was regarded locally as an oddball
who had been bound over by magistrates for abducting a
boy he took into the woods. Paul vanished as he cycled
home after playing with a chum in August last year. The
bike and his seminaked body were found the next day in
an overgrown 50ft ravine.
Prosecuting counsel said a local man heard what sounded
like sobbing coming from the chicken hut as he walked
by with his dogs. A short time later he looked back and
saw Blenkey acting strangely.
Detectives found Paul's socks and underpants in the hut
and there was strong physical evidence including a palm
print on the bike handlebars to incriminate his killer.
But still Blenkey denied the murder. . . until the confession
he wrote in prison was revealed. |
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