
This case is one of the most brutal cases of domestic violence that we have. For Episode 3, we tackle the extremely difficult case of Kelly Anne Bates, the 17 year old who was groomed, abused, and eventually murdered by her disgusting pig of a boyfriend. This site is not free, I pay more than 300 just to keep this.

Coni takes lead on THE most brutal crime that she has ever researched. Donations & Patreon membership will go towards keeping this site running. This case has been compared to the Junko Furuta and Sylvia Likens case, and once again highlights the topic of bystander apathy. Listen to this episode from Gruesome: Horrific True Crime on Spotify.

Smith, with a history of violence and torture against former partners, denied murdering Bates but was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on 19 November 1997. The murder inquiry was headed by Detective Sergeant Joseph Monaghan of Greater Manchester Police, who said: "I have been in the police force for 15 years and have never seen a case as horrific as this." William Lawler, the pathologist who examined Bates' body, described her injuries as the worst he had seen on a murder victim. The story that unfolded is a tragic one which. The story that unfolded is a tragic one which I go through in m. When Kelly Anne Bates met James Patterson Smith she didn't know how much of a monster he was. She was tortured by him over a period of four weeks, including having her eyes gouged from their sockets up to three weeks before her death, before being bludgeoned over the head and drowned in a bathtub. When Kelly Anne Bates met James Patterson Smith she didn’t know how much of a monster he was. Kelly Anne Bates - Gruesome: Horrific True Crime Podcast on Spotify Home Search Your Library Create Playlist Privacy Center Cookies Preview of Spotify Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. Due popular demand by our viewers, we recount the tragic death of Kelly Anne Bates - an English teenager who was murdered in Manchester, England at the age of 17 by her abuser and live in partner, James Patterson Smith, who was roughly 30 years her senior. 1979 16 April 1996) was an English teenager who was murdered in Manchester on 16 April 1996 when aged 17.
