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Kelly Anne Bates (18 May 1978 – 16 April 1996) was an English teenager who was murdered in Manchester, England at the age of 17 by her abuser, James Patterson Smith (born c. 1948).
Apr 4, 2023 · On April 16, 1996, Kelly Anne Bates died at the age of just 17 after four excruciating weeks of torture at the hands of her boyfriend James Patterson Smith. Her mid-40s boyfriend stabbed, burned, and mutilated her for weeks before finally killing her.
Feb 15, 2018 · On 16 April, 1996, 17-year-old Kelly Anne Bates was drowned in a bath tub, after suffering four weeks of constant torture at the hands of her 48-year-old “partner,” James Patterson Smith, who had started grooming the Manchester schoolgirl when she was just 14-years-old.
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Jan 16, 2023 · EXCLUSIVE: James Patterson Smith was jailed in 1997 for 25 years for the killing of his girlfriend, Kelly-Anne Bates, 17 of Hattersley. He tortured her for three weeks before drowning her...
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Apr 6, 2022 · The jury only took one hour to find James Patterson Smith guilty of Kelly Anne Bates’ murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, serving a minimum of 20 years. “This has been a terrible case; a catalogue of depravity by one human being upon another.
Kelly Anne Bates (c. 1979 – 16 April 1996) was an English teenager who was murdered in Manchester on 16 April 1996 when aged 17. She was tortured over a period of four weeks, including having her eyes gouged from their sockets up to three weeks before her death, by her partner James Patterson Smith (born c. 1948) before being drowned in a ...
In a case police described as the worst example of abuse they had ever seen, April 1996 saw the horrific torture and murder of 17-year-old Kelly-Anne Bates at the hand of her boyfriend of three years, 49-year-old James Patterson Smith.
