THOMSON, GEORGE et al: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
Carlisle, June 2015: At midnight a teenager lies amongst the gravestones. He screamed out for help before being murdered. But it would not be until the following morning that his body would be discovered. The victim was Jordan Watson aged 14. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e3: Thomson
Very soon the police had a suspect: George Thomson, 18, 4 years older than Jordan Watson. … Police found traces of blood on one of the knives in his bedroom, and the glove at the cemetery contained Watson’s DNA. ibid.
He starts to wriggle, manoeuvre, manipulate, the legs are vibrating, his head’s moving, he’s touching his face … ibid. Cliff
Jordan had been coming under the influence of George Thomson. But Thomson had another reason for getting close to the schoolboy. ibid.
‘George had developed an infatuation with Jordan’s girlfriend.’ ibid. dude
Police found traces of Jordan’s blood on one of the knives in his [Thomson’s] bedroom. ibid.
THORBURN, RICK: Inside Crime TV -
Rick and Julene Thorburn portrayed themselves as the perfect foster parents. Who concocted a story to hide a murder from police. Inside Crime s2e2: Rick Thorburn
As police would eventually discover, Tiahleigh was already dead, killed the night before by her foster father, Rick Thorburn. ibid.
A school counsellor calls to say Tiahleigh is not at school … a 12-year-old girl has gone missing. ibid.
THORPE, LORRAINE: Countdown to Murder: Killer Schoolgirl TV - Standard online -
Fifteen-year-old Lorraine Thorpe and her alcoholic father Des lived life on the bottom rung. As she grew up she started mixing with other drunk friends of her dads one of which was 41-year-old Paul Clark. Lorraine fell upon Paul Clark’s spell and she began drinking and stealing with him. And then their behaviour became even more sinister. Together they tortured Roselyn Hunt and left her to die in her Ipswich flat ... They killed him [dad] too. Countdown to Murder s2e4: Killer Schoolgirl, Channel 5 2014
Britain’s youngest double murderer. ibid.
Britain’s youngest female double murderer was ordered to be detained for a minimum 14 years at the Old Bailey today.
Lorraine Thorpe was just 15 when she killed her father, who was in her care.
She also murdered mother-of-two Rosie Hunt who was kicked and punched over several days, suffering multiple fractures and nine broken ribs.
Thorpe, who was on the run from social services at the time, and her co-defendant Peter Clarke, 42, were convicted of both murders in Ipswich in August last year. Clarke was jailed for a minimum of 27 years last month. Standard online article 7th September 2010
THWALA, SIPHO: Crimes that Shook the World TV -
19 young women were lured to their deaths in the vast sugar-cane fields just outside Durban. Far from help, they were bound, gagged and murdered by a serial killer. Crimes that Shook the World s1e6: Sipho Thwala: The Phoenix Strangler, Discovery 2006
During the third week of the investigation the story broke in the press: a procession of lurid front-page headlines. ibid.