Mary's troubled upbringing seemed to foreshadow her violent behaviour In 1968, Mary Bell from Newcastle, England, at just 10 years old, committed her first murder by strangling four-year-old ...

THE experiences of Mary Bell, the double child killer, have been pored over by probation officers handling the release of James Bulger's killers to ensure that they learn lessons from the past.

Mary Bell was a child herself when she killed two young boys Child killer Mary Bell, who was convicted of murdering two young boys when she was 11, has been granted lifelong anonymity. A High Court ...