UK’s youngest female murderer ‘The Devil’s Daughter’ to stay behind bars
Sharon Carr was convicted of a brutal murder carried out when she was 12 years old.
The UK’s youngest female murderer has been denied parole and will remain locked up for her shocking crimes.
Sharon Carr was only 12 years old when she brutally stabbed a complete stranger to death.
Her victim was Katie Rackliff, who was knifed 32 times in the street during the unprovoked attack in June 1992.
The 18-year-old had been walking home from a night out in Camberley, Surrey, when she was pounced on by Carr.
Carr’s callous attitude to the crime and her continual propensity for violence in prison saw her later dubbed ‘The Devil’s Daughter’.
A huge manhunt was launched following the killing but it took five years to bring Carr to justice.
Part of the problem was that the bloody assault was so fierce and included suspected sexual elements that police assumed they were looking for a male suspect.
The case into the murder of the teenage hairdresser was only solved when Carr attacked another schoolgirl with a knife.
After being sent to a young offenders’ institute she began bragging to other inmates that she was the killer.
She has been behind bars for the past 30 years and will remain there after the parole board denied her freedom.
She is now aged in her 40s but is still deemed too dangerous to be released.
A parole board spokesman told the Express: ‘Decisions solely focus on what risk a prisoner could represent if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.’
It was exactly two years to the day of Miss Rackliff’s murder that Carr struck again – leading to her being locked up.
She attacked and stabbed a fellow pupil and Collingwood College Comprehensive School.
The girl survived the attack and Carr found herself sent to a young offender’s institution.
It was there she revealed to other inmates that she was responsible for the murder of Miss Rackliff two years earlier.
She went on to exhibit further violent tendencies and wrote about her enjoyment of such behaviour.
Violent diary entries were found in which she said she had enjoyed carrying out the murder and the second stabbing.
It was in March 1997, when she tried to strangle two nurses, that her boasts about killing the teenager landed her with a conviction for murder.
She was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum jail term of 14 years.
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