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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).
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.
Sadistic James Patterson Smith brutally murdered Kelly-Anne Bates, 17, in 1996. Kelly-Anne was burnt, stabbed and had her eyes gouged out before being killed. Smith, now 74, was jailed for...
Margaret Bates, from Mottram in Tameside, has died, 24 years after her daughter Kelly-Anne Bates was murdered by James Smith, who tortured the teenager over several weeks.
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.
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.
