In a shocking revelation during an inquest at Chesterfield Coroner’s Court, a probation officer, whose identity remains undisclosed for legal reasons, admitted to not having sufficient time to read reports detailing the violent history of Damien Bendall. This negligence in the pre-sentence report allowed Bendall, a convicted murderer, to live with his partner and her children before he brutally killed them.
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Damien Bendall, 33, committed the heinous crimes on September 19, 2021, in Killamarsh, near Sheffield, taking the lives of his pregnant partner Terri Harris, 35, her children John Paul Bennett, 13, and Lacey Bennett, 11, as well as Lacey’s friend, Connie Gent, also 11. Bendall also raped Lacey on the same day.