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Kelly Anne Bates (18 May 1978 – 16 April 1996) was an English teenager who was murdered in Manchester, England at the age of 17 by her abuser, James Patterson Smith (born c. 1948).
Jan 16, 2023 · EXCLUSIVE: James Patterson Smith was jailed in 1997 for 25 years for the killing of his girlfriend, Kelly-Anne Bates, 17 of Hattersley. He tortured her for three weeks before...
Apr 4, 2023 · On April 16, 1996, Kelly Anne Bates died at the age of just 17 after four excruciating weeks of torture at the hands of her boyfriend James Patterson Smith. Her mid-40s boyfriend stabbed, burned, and mutilated her for weeks before finally killing her.
James Patterson Smith is sadist who systematically tortured his 17-year-old girlfriend for up to a month before drowning her in the bath in England.
Dec 29, 2020 · Margaret Bates, from Mottram in Tameside, has died, 24 years after her daughter Kelly-Anne Bates was murdered by James Smith, who tortured the teenager over several weeks
James Patterson Smith was found guilty of the murder of Kelly-Anne Bates. He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 25 years. In handing down the sentence, Judge Mr. Justice Sachs said: ‘You have been convicted in short order and rightly so by the just of murdering this young woman.
Feb 15, 2018 · On 16 April, 1996, 17-year-old Kelly Anne Bates was drowned in a bath tub, after suffering four weeks of constant torture at the hands of her 48-year-old “partner,” James Patterson Smith, who had started grooming the Manchester schoolgirl when she was just 14-years-old.
