Sibling Rivalries: 13 Evil children who took it too far (With Pictures)

4. Boy A

One of the most shockingly brutal cases of siblicide occurred on January 19th, 2000, when a 12-year-old Bristol boy, (unnamed for legal reasons) murdered his baby brother. The boy wandered into a police station and told them what he had done, then produced the kitchen knife he’d used.

Asked why he had done it, he simply said “I want to be with my mum”. The police then went to the home, where they found the six-month-old baby with 17 stab wounds to the face, neck and back and with his hand severed. The boys’ mother had been asleep downstairs at the time and wasn’t aware of the attack until the police arrived.

The boy pleaded guilty to manslaughter, saying during a police interview that after arguing with his mother earlier he had gone to get a kitchen knife to hurt his brother, but he didn’t know why. One thing that was made clear was the boy’s very difficult upbringing; Lady Helena Kennedy QC, defending said of the killing: “It was the act of a boy who is still a child and was brought up in circumstances of serious deprivation and, at the time of the killing, was mentally ill.”