By Eric King-
A man who stabbed a 16-year-old girl 28 times before dumping her body under an old sofa “liked killing”, a court has heard.
Shea Peter Heeley lured Leonne Weeks r to a secluded spot where he killed her in a “brutally violent” attack, Sheffield Crown Court heard
19 year old Sheer Peter Heeley was jailed for life, as judge Paul Watson QC told the man he may never be released from prison. Judge Watson described it as a “pre-planned, brutal and pitiless killing of an innocentyoung girl who had her whole life before her.”
He told Heeley that the family of a “lovely, lively, funny and caring young girl” will now have to live with the “living nightmare of your evil crime”.
Alan Kent QC, defending, said his client told staff at Rampton top security mental hospital: “I like that I have done it, I just do. I like killing.”
Mr Kent said Heeley told prison staff: “Knowing I have killed someone satisfied me.”
Kent told the court his client claimed he had fantasies about killing and “hitting people on the head with hammers”, which “cheered him up”.
Tim Roberts QC, prosecuting, told the judge that Heeley attacked the teenager “for no reason at all” other than his obsession with murder and killing. Mr Roberts told the court Heeley told a nurse in custody “he had always known that he would kill someone from an early age”.
He said the defendant said: “I’ll go to prison or hospital, but probably prison. If that’s what it takes to stop me killing people, that’s where I need to go.”
Mr Roberts said Heeley, who also admitted killing animals, told medical staff how he could hear Leonne’s screams and how “he heard voices telling him to kill her and he had demons inside him.”
The court heard that Heeley was not suffering from a mental illness but may have an emerging personality disorder.
Six months before the murder, Heeley had been referred to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) after he rang police to inform them he was out carrying a machete and feared he would hurt someone.
He was assessed by psychiatrists a month before the murder and their report – which concluded that he had no mental illness . The psychiatrist report was still being typed up when he attacked Leonne. The court heard how evil Heeley went as far as telling friends he was a psychopath, but they dismissed the claim, and viewed it as him just “bigging himself up”.
CALLOUS
Prosecutors said that when friends gathered in grief after Leonne’s death, Heeley was “laughing and joking in a callous and offensive way”.
In a statement read to the court, Leonne’s father, Darran Weeks, said; “Leonne was taken away from me by the evil act of a cold-hearted killer.”
Mr Weeks said: “She was full of life. She had such a caring nature and was loved by everyone around her.”
Speaking outside court, Detective Chief Inspector Martin Tate said: “I don’t think we’ll ever really understand why he (Heeley) is so dangerous, what he is thinking and why anyone would seek to do this.”
The court heard Heeley had confessed to six other murders, including one committed before he was born, but these are all thought to be fantasies. However, Mr Tate said he did not believe he was responsible for other killings.
Heeley, of Doe Quarry Lane, Dinnington, admitted murder last month.
He sat in the dock surrounded by seven guards and, as he was led from court, someone in the packed public gallery shouted: “Do us all a favour and hang yourself.”