Interview tapes in which Kim Edwards describes the murders of her mother and sister have been released by Lincolnshire Police.
Edwards and boyfriend Lucas Markham were both 14 when they murdered Liz (49) and Katie Edwards (13) as they slept in their beds at their home in Dawson Avenue, Spalding, in April 2016.
Kim says in the tapes: “Erm, I went into the room to see what was going on ‘cos I heard like noises and stuff so I just wanted to check if he was okay.
He was on top of her with a pillow over her head, just like even though her voice box, you know, was like er…. She like, er, I thought I heard her say ‘get off me’ but I’m not entirely sure. Then after about ten minutes of Lucas putting his weight on her, she was, she was dead like,…..”
Asked for her reasoning to do it, she said: “Erm, just that, well, ever since like I was young like I never got on with my mum. I knew that she favoured my sister more than me erm and even though she said that she didn’t I knew that she was lying.”
She said she was relieved the murders were done, adding: “Because my mum doesn’t have to deal with me anymore being like suicidal and she doesn’t have to wake up worrying every morning to see if I’m still alive, and my sister doesn’t have to go through the heartbreak and, like, and just all the emotions and stuff.”
Edited police interview questions and answers:
Q What exactly happened to cause you to want to, to plan this?
A Erm well I don’t know really well it just kind of happened because
Q Cos it’s quite a drastic thing to, to happen, you clearly from what you’re saying had your reasons. I mean, what were those reasons?
A Erm just that erm well ever since like I was young like I never got on with my mum erm er I knew that she favoured my sister more than me erm and even though she said that she didn’t I knew that she was lying….
Q And how did you feel?
A Er….. I was okay with it erm just er the fact that it happened so quickly that like gave me peace of mind cos like, you know, it wasn’t like torture or anything so
Q And how do you feel about it on reflection now?
A Erm the same way
Q What, relieved that it’s done?
A Yeah
Q Are you unhappy about it?
A Erm to a point yes
Q Why’s that?
A Erm yes because my mum doesn’t have to deal with me anymore erm being like suicidal and she doesn’t have to wake up worrying every morning to see if I’m still alive erm and my sister doesn’t
have to go through the heartbreak and and like and just all the emotions and stuff
Q Where did you think up to kill your family, to do it via a knife, to stab them in the throat, to have a bath afterwards, to commit suicide afterwards? Where’s all this come from? Where’s all this,
have you seen something like it, have you read something like it?
A Well no not really I just erm went with general knowledge really er well cos the voice box and the stabbing in the throat and the bath cos of the dog er so she wouldn’t smell the (unintelligible) Lucas I don’t like the smell of blood erm and just yeah and committing suicide after it’s just most people who do commit murders try to commit suicide themselves just most people do….
Q ….well it’s alright, some people have yeah but, it’s…so that’s your idea behind it alright erm so there was nothing that you’d seen, you’d read or anything that gave you this sort of notion nobody
had discussed it with you?
A (unintelligible)
Q All your own doing just you and Lucas?
A Yeah
Q I’m sure you realise at this stage just how serious this is don’t you? I mean you’re a very young girl but this is very very serious for you and Lucas so if there’s anything you need to tell us you might as well get it off your chest now
A Erm
Q I appreciate the fact that you, you know, you told us what you told us but I don’t know if you’ve got anything lurking that you think so that you might want to get clear?
A Erm no
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