Britain's youngest female double murderer Lorraine Thorpe gets parole hearing trends now
Britain's youngest female double murderer who killed her father and a woman in separate incidents has been granted her first parole hearing and could walk free from prison.
Lorraine Thorpe was just 15 when she killed her father Desmond Thorpe, 43 and Rosalyn Hunt, 41, in Ipswich, Suffolk, in August 2009.
Thorpe, who had been part of Ipswich's street drinking culture since aged 13, was convicted alongside her 'role model' Paul Clarke, then aged 41, and sentenced at London's Old Bailey.
She has now served her minimum term and has been granted a parole hearing which is likely to be heard in the 'early summer.'
Lorraine Thorpe became Britain's youngest female double murderer at the age of 15 after the brutal killings of her father Desmond and Rosalyn Hunt
A seven-week trial at Ipswich Crown Court heard that Rosalyn Hunt was the first victim and was beaten to death over several days, with Thorpe responsible for kicking, punching and stamping on her head.
Thorpe's father Desmond, a 'vulnerable' alcoholic, was smothered amid fears that he would tell the police about the first murder.
The court hearing in August 2010 revealed shocking details about the culture of violence among some street drinkers in Ipswich and of Thorpe's descent into chaos and murder.
One of 11 children, her parents had split up when she was 12 and she went to live with her alcoholic father in various squalid flats and even tents to evade social services.
Thorpe met Clarke, who was known as a bully among the street community and they formed an unlikely drinking pair.
The jury was told that Clarke and mother-of-two Rosalyn - also a member of the drinking group - had spent time at each other's flats in Ipswich drinking in the run-up to the murder.
The court heard that Rosalyn, who at one time had a relationship with Clarke, had been killed after he blamed her for his dog attacking a child.
Paul Clarke carried out the brutal killings alongside Thorpe in 2009
Thorpe and Clarke lured the victim back to her flat in Victoria Street, Ipswich, and tortured her for two days, using a cheese grater on her skin and then rubbing salt into the open wounds to increase the pain.
The teenager was then said to have used Rosalyn as a 'punch bag' - stamping on her and snapping nine of her ribs before burning her hair and whipping her with a dog lead.
After days of torture their victim was still alive, so she was eventually beaten to death.
On 9 August 2009, a member of the public rang police to raise concerns about the safety of Rosalyn, and officers found her dead when they entered her property.
Days after the murder, the pair decided to murder Desmond Thorpe, in order to silence him from implicating them in the first murder to police.
Lorraine smothered her disabled father with a cushion before kicking him as he lay prone on the floor.
She later admitted to police that they would find 'her trainer prints on his head'.
Desmond's body was found by police on the morning of 10 August 2009, after they were told a man had died in Limerick Close, Ipswich.
His body was found only hours after the discovery of Rosalyn Hunt's, and police immediately announced that they suspected the murders were linked and arrested both Clarke and Thorpe.
On 25 August 2009, they appeared in court charged with the murders.
Thorpe and Clarke both denied the
