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Marsh guilty of murdering his girlfriend and baby (From Daily Echo)
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Anthony Marsh guilty of murdering Stephanie Bellinger and baby Lili in Totton
4:16pm Tuesday 30th November 2010 in News
By Dan Kerins, Digital Editor
A MAN has been found guilty of brutally murdering his girlfriend and their baby daughter.
Anthony Marsh was today found guilty of the murders of Stephanie Bellinger and baby Lili at the family home in Totton in February this year.
He began his frenzied attack as the mother and baby slept.
Stephanie had been "wounded, stabbed or cut repeatedly" over 30 times to the head, neck, back and chest and had woken screaming when the attack had began and tried to defend herself.
Lili had been stabbed once in the head but also had bruising to her face. Marsh said he had attempted to strangle her, suffocate her and stood on her with both feet.
Marsh, who was 21 at the time, then took a shower before he fled the house in the middle of the night, leaving their two-year-old son locked inside "alive and unharmed".
It was at least 30 hours before the murders were discovered by Stephanie's mother Elizabeth, and sister Ruth.
They had gone to the house, worried that they could not reach Stephanie by phone, and seen the little boy through the letterbox who began shouting "nana, nana".
When they shouted to him and asked him where his mum was, he told them she and Lili were sleeping, jurors heard.
A neighbour then helped them break into the semidetached house, using a hammer to smash a glass pane in the porch door.
The women ran upstairs where they found Stephanie's partly naked body, with the knife still in her from the final wound Marsh inflicted. Next to her was Lili's body, covered by a duvet. Marsh's bloody handprint was on the wall and a book entitled How to Lose a Husband and Gain a Life was lying on the pillow.
Marsh was arrested three days later in Fareham town centre, after walking there from Totton.
While he admitted the killings, Marsh had claimed 'voices' in his head had made him commit the terrible crimes. As a result, he denied murder.
The court was told that Marsh claims he was suffering from an abnormality that comes from psychosis which "substantially impaired his responsibility".
However, the jury today decided that Marsh was guilty of the murders.
Comments(27)
flower49
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4:51pm Tue 30 Nov 10
Ozmosis wrote:I agree with the above comments, the trial must have been so horrendous, I found the Echo journalist to be very graphic in the describing of the killings, it made me feel sick, god only knows what lifelong effects this will have on so many family and friends of these two lives taken so young by what one can only describe a madman.
Let's hope the bloke is either sectioned or locked up indefinitely.... for everyone's sake. Sympathies to the family - I can only imagine how hard the trial must have been for them
menotyou
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5:05pm Tue 30 Nov 10
hythe knights
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5:13pm Tue 30 Nov 10
Bronson69
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5:18pm Tue 30 Nov 10
With a bit of luck he will receive what he deserves once inside . A slow and painful death preferably ( not too long though ,wouldnt want to waste tax payers money)
Stupideditor
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5:34pm Tue 30 Nov 10
hythe knights wrote:I second that. He's admitted that he has killed them regardless of mental capacity. We should use the american system, why waste take payers maoney to keep him alive when it will be much easier, cheaper and deserved of the death penalty
Death penalty is deserved.
key-word cold-kind
Hannibal Lecture
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7:31pm Tue 30 Nov 10
Stupideditor wrote:What "American system"?
hythe knights wrote:I second that. He's admitted that he has killed them regardless of mental capacity. We should use the american system, why waste take payers maoney to keep him alive when it will be much easier, cheaper and deserved of the death penalty
Death penalty is deserved.
key-word cold-kind
Atpost
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8:13pm Tue 30 Nov 10
Hannibal Lecture wrote:The one that stupid saw on a film once - so it must be true
Stupideditor wrote:What "American system"?hythe knights wrote: Death penalty is deserved.I second that. He's admitted that he has killed them regardless of mental capacity. We should use the american system, why waste take payers maoney to keep him alive when it will be much easier, cheaper and deserved of the death penalty key-word cold-kind
forest hump
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8:21pm Tue 30 Nov 10
Atpost wrote:It has nothing to do with Hollywood. The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed. No wasting taxpayers' monies to look after scum. QED!
Hannibal Lecture wrote:The one that stupid saw on a film once - so it must be trueStupideditor wrote:What "American system"?hythe knights wrote: Death penalty is deserved.I second that. He's admitted that he has killed them regardless of mental capacity. We should use the american system, why waste take payers maoney to keep him alive when it will be much easier, cheaper and deserved of the death penalty key-word cold-kind
Atpost
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8:23pm Tue 30 Nov 10
forest hump wrote:But WHAT american system is that?
Atpost wrote:It has nothing to do with Hollywood. The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed. No wasting taxpayers' monies to look after scum. QED!Hannibal Lecture wrote:The one that stupid saw on a film once - so it must be trueStupideditor wrote:What "American system"?hythe knights wrote: Death penalty is deserved.I second that. He's admitted that he has killed them regardless of mental capacity. We should use the american system, why waste take payers maoney to keep him alive when it will be much easier, cheaper and deserved of the death penalty key-word cold-kind
Is the significance of the question really lost on you?
Karenrstevens
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8:44pm Tue 30 Nov 10
Hannibal Lecture
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8:49pm Tue 30 Nov 10
forest hump wrote:You could not be more wrong. You could try, but you would not be successful. "America" has no such policy whatsoever. Prove me wrong. Actual evidence, please, not just what you believe because you saw Dead Man Walking
Atpost wrote:It has nothing to do with Hollywood. The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed. No wasting taxpayers' monies to look after scum. QED!
Hannibal Lecture wrote:The one that stupid saw on a film once - so it must be trueStupideditor wrote:What "American system"?hythe knights wrote: Death penalty is deserved.I second that. He's admitted that he has killed them regardless of mental capacity. We should use the american system, why waste take payers maoney to keep him alive when it will be much easier, cheaper and deserved of the death penalty key-word cold-kind
Hannibal Lecture
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8:50pm Tue 30 Nov 10
Atpost wrote:Indeed - and I thought it was just an ironic nicname
Hannibal Lecture wrote:The one that stupid saw on a film once - so it must be true
Stupideditor wrote:What "American system"?hythe knights wrote: Death penalty is deserved.I second that. He's admitted that he has killed them regardless of mental capacity. We should use the american system, why waste take payers maoney to keep him alive when it will be much easier, cheaper and deserved of the death penalty key-word cold-kind
forest hump
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9:05pm Tue 30 Nov 10
Atpost wrote:No, it is not lost! In the USA, in certain States, if you kill someone and you are found guilty, you are then subsequently killed. You must be pretty dumb to not understand that!
forest hump wrote:But WHAT american system is that? Is the significance of the question really lost on you?Atpost wrote:It has nothing to do with Hollywood. The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed. No wasting taxpayers' monies to look after scum. QED!Hannibal Lecture wrote:The one that stupid saw on a film once - so it must be trueStupideditor wrote:What "American system"?hythe knights wrote: Death penalty is deserved.I second that. He's admitted that he has killed them regardless of mental capacity. We should use the american system, why waste take payers maoney to keep him alive when it will be much easier, cheaper and deserved of the death penalty key-word cold-kind
Hannibal Lecture
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9:17pm Tue 30 Nov 10
forest hump wrote:That's not what you said initially, though. Not even remotely.
Atpost wrote:No, it is not lost! In the USA, in certain States, if you kill someone and you are found guilty, you are then subsequently killed. You must be pretty dumb to not understand that!
forest hump wrote:But WHAT american system is that? Is the significance of the question really lost on you?Atpost wrote:It has nothing to do with Hollywood. The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed. No wasting taxpayers' monies to look after scum. QED!Hannibal Lecture wrote:The one that stupid saw on a film once - so it must be trueStupideditor wrote:What "American system"?hythe knights wrote: Death penalty is deserved.I second that. He's admitted that he has killed them regardless of mental capacity. We should use the american system, why waste take payers maoney to keep him alive when it will be much easier, cheaper and deserved of the death penalty key-word cold-kind
You said "The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed. No wasting taxpayers' monies to look after scum. QED!"
It is nothing like that. In states that have the death penalty, you MAY receive it. And it may even eventually be enforced. But that's not a quick process, it takes years, often decades, to happen, all at the expense of - survey says! - The Taxpayer™.
So:
This system is state-dependent, it is not "the American system".
Where capital punishment exists, it is not automatic. The taking of a life does not necessarily - nor even usually - lead to a death sentence. In some circumstances, it may happen, but actually, most of the time, it doesn't.
It is far from a simple process, with layers of appeals that take enormous amounts of time.
The process can take longer than a life sentence, at a cost to the taxpayer.
Seems that NOT ONE PART of your claim is actually true. At all.
You must be pretty dumb, too, not to have spotted that this fabled system hasn't actually done much to deter murderers in America.
QED, as you put it
forest hump
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9:27pm Tue 30 Nov 10
Hannibal Lecture wrote:So, Sunshine, what's your answer? You have downtrodden me. I think you must be some kind of Liberal freak who hates the death sentance? Well, for me: I would just rid these freaks from the Earth. Unless you want to give them a home?
forest hump wrote:That's not what you said initially, though. Not even remotely. You said "The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed. No wasting taxpayers' monies to look after scum. QED!" It is nothing like that. In states that have the death penalty, you MAY receive it. And it may even eventually be enforced. But that's not a quick process, it takes years, often decades, to happen, all at the expense of - survey says! - The Taxpayer™. So: This system is state-dependent, it is not "the American system". Where capital punishment exists, it is not automatic. The taking of a life does not necessarily - nor even usually - lead to a death sentence. In some circumstances, it may happen, but actually, most of the time, it doesn't. It is far from a simple process, with layers of appeals that take enormous amounts of time. The process can take longer than a life sentence, at a cost to the taxpayer. Seems that NOT ONE PART of your claim is actually true. At all. You must be pretty dumb, too, not to have spotted that this fabled system hasn't actually done much to deter murderers in America. QED, as you put itAtpost wrote:No, it is not lost! In the USA, in certain States, if you kill someone and you are found guilty, you are then subsequently killed. You must be pretty dumb to not understand that!forest hump wrote:But WHAT american system is that? Is the significance of the question really lost on you?Atpost wrote:It has nothing to do with Hollywood. The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed. No wasting taxpayers' monies to look after scum. QED!Hannibal Lecture wrote:The one that stupid saw on a film once - so it must be trueStupideditor wrote:What "American system"?hythe knights wrote: Death penalty is deserved.I second that. He's admitted that he has killed them regardless of mental capacity. We should use the american system, why waste take payers maoney to keep him alive when it will be much easier, cheaper and deserved of the death penalty key-word cold-kind
forest hump
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10:36pm Tue 30 Nov 10
freefinker
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11:28pm Tue 30 Nov 10
forest hump wrote:Conjecture: "an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information" OED
As I thought, no alternative, just conjecture!
.
I think, conclusively, this fits you - not Hannibal Lecture, whose factual information has totally trumped your ‘shoot from the hip’ solution.
Dragnet
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11:59pm Tue 30 Nov 10
"The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed."
I looked up the figures. Texas kills more people than any other state. From 1976 to 2009 in Texas there were 61424 murders. In the same period, they executed only 464, less than 1% of convicted killers.
So it doesn't really follow that (quote again) "if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed."
(wow, bizarrely security-words are "live-long")
freefinker
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12:08am Wed 1 Dec 10
Dragnet wrote:Well researched, but you'll find forest hump is not interested in facts.
forest hump said:-
"The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed."
I looked up the figures. Texas kills more people than any other state. From 1976 to 2009 in Texas there were 61424 murders. In the same period, they executed only 464, less than 1% of convicted killers.
So it doesn't really follow that (quote again) "if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed."
(wow, bizarrely security-words are "live-long")
They usually get in the way of his pre-conceived opinions.
pod
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8:40am Wed 1 Dec 10
forest hump wrote:when you people have stopped playing handbags at dawn, please have some respect for this story.
Atpost wrote:No, it is not lost! In the USA, in certain States, if you kill someone and you are found guilty, you are then subsequently killed. You must be pretty dumb to not understand that!forest hump wrote:But WHAT american system is that? Is the significance of the question really lost on you?Atpost wrote:It has nothing to do with Hollywood. The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed. No wasting taxpayers' monies to look after scum. QED!Hannibal Lecture wrote:The one that stupid saw on a film once - so it must be trueStupideditor wrote:What "American system"?hythe knights wrote: Death penalty is deserved.I second that. He's admitted that he has killed them regardless of mental capacity. We should use the american system, why waste take payers maoney to keep him alive when it will be much easier, cheaper and deserved of the death penalty key-word cold-kind
The most horriffic crime has happened and some creature has been found guilty. In the middle of all this is a dead woman and baby and a family and many friends whose lives have been completely destroyed.
You should be ashamed of yourselves of yourselves for highjacking this story for your own one-upmanship.
Hannibal Lecture
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9:37am Wed 1 Dec 10
forest hump wrote:LOL lrn2think, idiot. I haven't said anything whatsoever about how I feel about the death penalty. All I did was point out how factually inaccurate you were about capital punishment in the USA. You can think whatever you want about me, I won't be losing any sleep.
Hannibal Lecture wrote:So, Sunshine, what's your answer? You have downtrodden me. I think you must be some kind of Liberal freak who hates the death sentance? Well, for me: I would just rid these freaks from the Earth. Unless you want to give them a home?
forest hump wrote:That's not what you said initially, though. Not even remotely. You said "The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed. No wasting taxpayers' monies to look after scum. QED!" It is nothing like that. In states that have the death penalty, you MAY receive it. And it may even eventually be enforced. But that's not a quick process, it takes years, often decades, to happen, all at the expense of - survey says! - The Taxpayer™. So: This system is state-dependent, it is not "the American system". Where capital punishment exists, it is not automatic. The taking of a life does not necessarily - nor even usually - lead to a death sentence. In some circumstances, it may happen, but actually, most of the time, it doesn't. It is far from a simple process, with layers of appeals that take enormous amounts of time. The process can take longer than a life sentence, at a cost to the taxpayer. Seems that NOT ONE PART of your claim is actually true. At all. You must be pretty dumb, too, not to have spotted that this fabled system hasn't actually done much to deter murderers in America. QED, as you put itAtpost wrote:No, it is not lost! In the USA, in certain States, if you kill someone and you are found guilty, you are then subsequently killed. You must be pretty dumb to not understand that!forest hump wrote:But WHAT american system is that? Is the significance of the question really lost on you?Atpost wrote:It has nothing to do with Hollywood. The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed. No wasting taxpayers' monies to look after scum. QED!Hannibal Lecture wrote:The one that stupid saw on a film once - so it must be trueStupideditor wrote:What "American system"?hythe knights wrote: Death penalty is deserved.I second that. He's admitted that he has killed them regardless of mental capacity. We should use the american system, why waste take payers maoney to keep him alive when it will be much easier, cheaper and deserved of the death penalty key-word cold-kind
Hannibal Lecture
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9:38am Wed 1 Dec 10
forest hump wrote:Forgive me for not wanting to spend my entire evening picking your, err, "point" apart. I note you had nothing whatsoever to say on the areas about which you were provably wrong, though. Perhaps it's time to learn the difference between what you think ought to be true, and what actually is true.
As I thought, no alternative, just conjecture!
Little Red Corvette
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10:04am Wed 1 Dec 10
davesbabe
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10:33am Wed 1 Dec 10
Shoong
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11:00am Wed 1 Dec 10
pod wrote:Agreed, you need to get over yourselves really, no shame.
forest hump wrote:when you people have stopped playing handbags at dawn, please have some respect for this story.
Atpost wrote:No, it is not lost! In the USA, in certain States, if you kill someone and you are found guilty, you are then subsequently killed. You must be pretty dumb to not understand that!forest hump wrote:But WHAT american system is that? Is the significance of the question really lost on you?Atpost wrote:It has nothing to do with Hollywood. The system is; simply: if you are guilty of killing someone, you get killed. No wasting taxpayers' monies to look after scum. QED!Hannibal Lecture wrote:The one that stupid saw on a film once - so it must be trueStupideditor wrote:What "American system"?hythe knights wrote: Death penalty is deserved.I second that. He's admitted that he has killed them regardless of mental capacity. We should use the american system, why waste take payers maoney to keep him alive when it will be much easier, cheaper and deserved of the death penalty key-word cold-kind
The most horriffic crime has happened and some creature has been found guilty. In the middle of all this is a dead woman and baby and a family and many friends whose lives have been completely destroyed.
You should be ashamed of yourselves of yourselves for highjacking this story for your own one-upmanship.
Sasha2020
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11:02am Wed 1 Dec 10
As someone who works in the health service, I also wonder if this tragedy could have been avoided had mental health services not been so badly eroded over the years. Of course, I don't have all the facts, but it does look to me that this man should have been placed as an in-patient in a secure unit along time ago. Prevention of the crime in the first place surely has to be a better option than punishment.
Ozmosis says...
4:31pm Tue 30 Nov 10