World - AP Europe Teen Accused of 'Vampire' Killing Tue Jul 16,11:37 AM ET LONDON (AP) - A teenager obsessed with vampires killed an elderly neighbor and drank her blood because he believed that would make him immortal, prosecutors said Tuesday at the start of his murder trial. The 17-year-old youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of killing 90-year-old widow Mabel Leyshon at her home in Llanfair in north Wales on Nov. 24. He denies the charge. Prosecutors said Leyshon's chest was ripped open and her heart removed, wrapped in newspaper and placed in a saucepan on top of a silver platter. Blood was drained from her legs, probably for drinking, prosecutors told the jury at Mold Crown Court. Two fireplace pokers were left crossed at her feet. Prosecutor Roger Thomas said the teenager was obsessed by "his two main questions — how do I become a vampire and how do I become immortal?" The defendant decided "a sacrifice, the murder of another human being, was necessary," Thomas said. With his parents away, the youth committed a "planned, deliberate murder to satisfy his own grotesque and selfish ends," he said. The prosecution said the teen entered Leyshon's house by breaking glass in the back door and attacked her from behind as she watched television, stabbing her 22 times and removing her heart. Thomas said the defendant "was fascinated by" vampires. "He believed they existed, believed they drank human blood, and believed most importantly that they could achieve immortality — and he wanted to be immortal. What may have started out as a bizarre interest became an obsession and led ultimately to murder." Thomas said the youth had been arrested a month before the killing after using force to get a 16-year-old German exchange student he believed was a vampire to bite his neck so that he, too, could become a vampire.
wow..i loved those books! and The Witching Hour...but this MIGHT be taking it a bit far, huh? I notice he attacked an elderly woman...he's not a very tough vampire, I guess! Nice going, jackhole...(hoping his extra-sensory vampire perception can't pick up me mocking him)
Yeah, I was going to point out that he probably should have gone for younger blood in order to increase his power, but I didn't want give away just how many Anne Rice books I had read. Oddly, there are some people who practice "vampirism" and the drinking of blood. It's almost always an erotic practice though, and doesn't lead to murder. (You learn these things when you watch HBO late at night). Unfortunately, this kid is just really messed up.
Saw a couple of indie vampire movies on IFC this weekend. "Nadja" (Peter Fonda) and "Habit." Anyone else see these? Info on Habit: http://www.glasseyepix.com/html/noha.html
Someone needs to sit this guy down and force to watch a showing of Death Becomes Her. Immortality is not all it's cracked up to be.
back when i was in 5th grade, there was a story similar to this at my school... it freaked me out for an entire year... to the point there were many nights i was too scared to be alone in my room... the situation really messed me up, for a short time period, as a child...
What a sick kid. Thank God there aren't any kids where I live like that; well alteast I hope there aren't.
Somebody's seen way too many episodes of Buffy (not that I'm blaming TV or anything). I say lock him up, throw away the key, and give him a steady diet of only blood (... uh, not human, though). We'll see how long he sticks to his crazy-ass "Oooo, I'm a vampire" methodology... Geez, there are some real sickos out there. Thank God I live in New York City.
