My first idea was to headline this story “Crazier Than Selena Gomez,” but even an ex-Disney starlet would probably never go as far off the rails as British serial killer Joanna Dennehy:
Joanna Dennehy, 31, pleaded guilty in November to murdering three men by stabbing them in the heart and dumping their bodies in ditches in Cambridgeshire.
Her alleged accomplices, Leslie Layton, 36, and 7-foot-2-inch Gary “Stretch” Richards, 47, are now on trial. Providing evidence against them, Dennehy’s friend Georgina Page described how the confessed killer likened herself and Richards to Bonnie and Clyde, and “jumped around like a schoolgirl” when she learned of news reports about the murders, according to the BBC.
New photos of Dennehy, Richards and Layton, which portray the confessed killer and her alleged accomplices in various poses, were shown in court Monday. . . .
Witness Mark Lloyd was in the same car as Dennehy and Richards when they allegedly pulled over and attacked two men on the street in April of last year. The pair was already wanted for the murder of three men.
Lloyd said Dennehy, a mother of two, flirted with him before he got in the car. Once there, she admitted to killing three men, and Lloyd said he had no choice but to join them in their quest for what Dennehy called her “fun.”
Dennehy told Richards “I want my fun. I need you to get my fun,” as her alleged accomplice drove the car, Lloyd said in court Monday.
Denehy’s victims include her landlord and two other men. . . .
According to the Mirror, the woman allegedly bragged to her accomplices that she’d killed eight people, glibly remarking, “Oops, I did it again.”
Wait a minute — “Oops, I did it again”?
Wasn’t that a song by ex-Disney starlet Britney Spears? But I doubt even Britney would do anything this crazy.
Miley Cyrus maybe, but not Britney.
Not guilty by reason of obvious insanity.
Given the (admittedly limited) facts presented here, I don’t see enough for an insanity plea.
These are the cases where, in my opinion, the death penalty fits perfectly.
The tough part is figuring out what to do to punish the educators and family members who let her–and maybe in some cases helped her–turn into this kind of person.
She’s of the age group who grew up knowing that society viewed life (or at least certain lives) as disposable for convenience’s sake. Abortion because babies are punishment. The Liverpool Care Pathway. How much of a step is it for someone raised with that mindset to start considering it OK to dispose of other lives for fun?
The really crazy part: Many men would “hit” that.
Precisely. Psycho or sociopaths have personality disorders which are the result of willful behavior. Bundy, Holmes, BTK, all quite sane. Just very evil, like this lass. Serial killers are seldom insane. People who are clinically insane can’t hide their activities. Delusional and psychotic like the woman in Houston who drowned her kids in the tub as opposed to Susan Smith who clearly knew what she was doing. One is culpable the other is not.
She’s in the UK, so no death penalty.
Well, she pleaded guilty, and British law is different from ours. We ought to eliminate the not guilty by reason of insanity option and replace it with guilty, but insane.
But what she did was clearly insane, by definition. She killed three men just for kicks, knowing that if she got caught she’d spend the rest of her life in jail. There’s no way to define that as rational.
The guys in white jackets will be talking to this bitch for years.
Psychopaths don’t care about consequences to themselves. They are cold and calculating. The insane can be treated. Psychopaths are forever broken.
She…. procreated??
How unfortunate.
Alas, another part of the No longer “Great” Britain.
But abortion and euthanasia are totally okay, because people would never get the idea that humans are disposable and lack a right to life…..l
You can see the crazy in her eyes…
She had her fun, now we get ours.
As she’s a Brit, how about we bring back drawing and quartering?
I don’t care if she’s insane or not. She needs to die.
The fact that many men would “hit” that is no reflection on her worth as a human being. It only reflects on men’s lack of self control.
And yeah, I might. But that’s nothing a good woman couldn’t fix.
It is rational. It is not rational to you because you are a moral person. But to a person who wants instant gratification and finds violent outbreaks as gratifying and pleasurable–it is perfectly rational,.
And if she were an American, and her crime committed here? Let’s say she was in Pennsylvania, which sentences gobs of people to death. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment, the Keystone State has actually executed only three people, and all three “volunteered,” by choosing to end their appeals.
She’d spend the rest of her life on death row here, and die from something other than execution.
While the pardoning power technically remains with the crown, the monarch these days does not exercise this power absent consultation. However, I could very easily picture King Charles, once Her Majesty the Queen goes to her eternal reward, exercising clemency on his own, and he would pardon this twit if a capital sentence were imposed.
No disagreement.
Prolly. Didn’t say that wouldn’t happen. We’re not as insane as the Formerly Great Britain, but we aren’t too far behind.
Thank goodness people in Britain aren’t free. The victims may have had guns and could have defended themselves. Phew!
Actually, I’d put her in solitary for the rest of her life. No contact with other humans. Never let outside. No windows. No medical care. Nothing but bread and water through a slot in the door.
Just her. Alone. For decades.
It would be worth the $ to feed her.
A lack of a sense of right and wrong does not indicate insanity, merely a contemporary education.
Of course, this had to be connected to abortion rights because as we all know being pro-choice is just one small step away from being a serial killer.
In the UK it’s unlikely she will even receive a full life sentence for her crimes.
Miley Cyrus maybe, but not Britney.
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Well said.
The thought I had regarding this woman is that she is fairly young. What is her history? Family history? How did she get from A to B?
I believe you’re starting to get it!
Or are you arguing that a life tethered to only its mother is OK to terminate, but that life somehow becomes sacred when it becomes tethered to the government teat… And even that’s negotiable now, n’est-ce pas?
Abortionists are serial killers, and those who support abortion support a greater massacre of the innocents than Der Führer ever contemplated.
John Wayne Gacy killed only 33 people; some abortionists kill that many every day.
In the UK?!?!?
You’re an hysteric. Try looking up the legal definition of murder too. It doesn’t apply to abortion. And of course the woman who is carrying that embryo never factors into the equation and is really nothing more than a brood mare for Jesus in the eyes of white, sexist conservative men.
DERP. Guaranteed you support American wars which are responsible for killing actual living, breathing children without batting an eye and all for something as fake as “country”.
The latter part of your comment makes no sense. I dont support abortion after 20 weeks but before then absolutely and it is the women’s choice since itt’s her body and the one forced to carry it. I can just imagine what your reaction would be if the government forced you to keep something in your body against your will. A giant whine fest based purely on how you guys do nothing but whine about incandescent light bulbs. I generally dont like liberals, but conservatives will always be far worse and why I would never ever vote Republican even if Pol Pot was running the DNC.
All she’d have to do is claim it was jihad.
He’d free her and pay all court costs.
Don’t feed the boringly obvious troll.
I know, the rights of women over their own bodies are boring to people like you. Pretty pathetic. Get back to your fetus worship.
The logic of the pro-choice point of view escapes me… I have difficulty mocking it!
Thrill killer
“Not guilty by reason of obvious feminism.”
FIFY.
I see overwhelming evidence she was sane.
Insanity is very difficult to prove and generally results in longer sentences when it is successful than criminal charges. Like Jack Nicholoson found out in “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” be careful what you wish for when pleading insanity.
The government forces us to do many things with our bodies, Oik: we are forced to pay taxes, we are forced to wear clothing in public, males are forced to sign up for military conscription — and, in the past, were actually drafted. The government compels people to feed their children, the government compels people to obey all sorts of laws that were never laws before.
Saying that a woman does not and should not have the right to kill another human being, because it is temporarily inconvenient for her, is perfectly reasonable. She may, after delivery, surrender her child up for adoption, no questions asked.
Murder is the deliberate, non-self-defense killing of another living human being. The only way that abortion differs, legally, is because we have defined unborn children as non-persons.
But, don’t worry: defining some people as not being actual persons is an old, old tradition. Africans before 1865, Jews under the Third Reich, the Kulaks in Russia, the Hutu by the Tutsi, you name it, an old and honorable tradition.
“Empowered heroic woman, feminist icon”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Ts4M3irWM I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die…
You’re right, there is a grave injustice happening here: someone’s forcing women to have sex without first telling them that pregnancy might result. This must stop!
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“Pretty pathetic” is attack OUR mental state while naming yourself for a psychological disorder.