This is the chilling moment the ‘sleepover monster’ murdered told police he had killed his pregnant partner and three children.
Damien Bendall (32), raped and murdered Lacey Bennett, 11 years old, then killed her brother John Paul Bennett (13) and their mother Terri Harris (35) and Connie Gent (11) in Killamarsh. Derbyshire last year.
The victims were found dead at Chandos Crescent in Killamarsh on September 19, 2021.
Justice Nigel Sweeney handed him the rare punishment today at Derby Crown Court. He will never be freed.
Police released footage of his arrest as he was about to be sentenced. It showed him unconcerned about all the horrors he had caused.
Bodycam footage shows him saying ‘I’m going back to prison again’ and ‘I’ve murdered four people’.
The court also heard how the evil killer called the police to tell them he had murdered four people – before meeting them outside the home to ask for a cigarette.
Today, court heard footage from the hours after he murdered his girlfriend. Police have released parts of it.
It showed Bendall wandering through the darkness after the ‘brutal and cruel attacks’.
In the hours that followed the killings, Bendall took young John’s Xbox from his room, called a taxi and went to exchange the console for cocaine.
CCTV captured him walking through the streets and getting into and out of cabs in the early hours the next morning.
The court heard how in the taxi he told the driver his night was ‘not too bad, bit mad’.
Bendall then told the cabbie he had been ‘just chilling with family, really’.
He called his mother at 7:15 am the next morning, before going to the local shop to purchase tobacco.
CCTV footage inside the shop shows Bendall looking through coins in his hands. They appear to be stained with blood.
Then he smiles warmly at the assistant before making his way home.
Louis Mably KC, prosecuting, told the court: ‘At 7.26am, his mother called the police seeking for assistance for her son and she told him he had got a self-inflicted stab wound, which was what he told her.
‘At 7.38am, he used Connie’s phone to call 999.’
The call was played in court, and Bendall can be heard saying: ‘I just need to report a crime.
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‘Basically I need the police and ambulance now because I just killed four people.’
Two officers arrived and found Bendall outside of the home. This indicated that he had stabbed his chest.
One of the officers asks him: ‘Have you got anything on you that you shouldn’t have?’
To which Bendall says: ‘No, no, no weapons or nothing.’
The officers then ask if he’s harmed himself, to which he explains that he’s stabbed himself in the chest and the stomach.
The officers ask if he knows what the next steps are, Bendall says: ‘I know what’s going to happen – I’m going to go to prison obviously.’
When he’s asked if he’s harmed anyone else, he calmly replies: ‘Yeah, I’ve murdered four people.’
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The court heard how Bendall said he ‘didn’t know’ why he did it and he ‘blacked out’.
The monster told an officer he had been inside with his family, to which they asked: ‘Are your family ok?’
Bendall said: ‘No. There’s one in the bathroom, two upstairs and one in the bedroom.’
He was placed in a cuff and told to sit on the ground at the property’s edge while an officer went inside.
In the footage an officer can be heard saying: ‘He’s being calm and compliant but he’s got some stab wounds to his chest.
‘He’s saying that his family are inside and that he believes he murdered them.’
He then asks the other officer: ‘Are you alright for me to go in?’
In the footage played in court the cop can be heard saying: ‘Oh Jesus.
‘There’s at least three casualties. Unresponsive. I think they’re all dead.
‘They’re all gone mate, they’re all gone.’
Bendall was taken to hospital to be treated for ‘self-inflicted minor injuries’ before being moved to custody.
Speaking at the police station, he said: ‘The whole house is covered in claret.
‘I didn’t realise what I did until I walked into my room and saw my missus and my daughter.
‘Bet you don’t get four murders in Killamarsh – well five as my missus is having my baby.’
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