Category: Pending

Pending cases not yet on the official list

Desmond Thorpe

No PhotoName: Desmond Thorpe.
Died: August 10, 2009.
Age at death: 43.
Cause of death: Suffocation.
Location: Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK.
Disability: Chronic illness; physically disabled, alcoholism.

Details:
Desmond’s teenage daughter, worried that Desmond would turn her in for a murder she and another man had committed, killed him by suffocating him with a cushion. Desmond’s body and that of Rosalyn Hunt, 41, were soon found and Desmond’s daughter and her partner in crime were arrested.

Case Status:
Lorraine Thorpe (daughter) was convicted of both murders and sentenced to life with a minimum of 14 years.
Paul Clarke was convicted and imprisoned. He died by suicide in 2014.

Sources:
UK’s youngest double murderer who tortured pal with cheese grater could be freed
Lorraine Thorpe

3-year-old girl

No PhotoName Unknown.
Died: December 4, 2021.
Age at death: 3.
Cause of death: Drowning.
Location: Townsville, Queensland, Canada.
Disability: Autism.

Details:
This toddler girl’s father, who was the only adult home to take care of her and her two-year-old brother, had been awake for 31 hours, taking and selling methamphetamine. He was sleeping it off when his three-year-old daughter opened the unlocked front door, left the house, and drowned in a storm drain. Prosecutors called his drug use “criminally negligent” and the little girl’s death “entirely preventable”.

Case Status:
Her father pleaded guilty to manslaughter and child endangerment.

Sources:
Father found guilty of non-verbal, autistic daughter’s manslaughter after drowning death