PIERS Morgan has gone behind bars to meet a psychopath who murdered his four-year-old sister to spite his mum. The Good Morning Britain host headed to an American jail where twisted Paris Bennett is rotting for the grisly killing he carried out aged just 13. Bennett, now 25, knifed little Ella 17 times with a […]
PIERS Morgan has gone behind bars to meet a psychopath who murdered his four-year-old sister to spite his mum.
The Good Morning Britain host headed to an American jail where twisted Paris Bennett is rotting for the grisly killing he carried out aged just 13.
Bennett, now 25, knifed little Ella 17 times with a kitchen knife while she lay asleep in her bed in Texas in 2007.
The diagnosed psychopath wanted to punish his mum Charity – knowing she would not only lose Ella but also him when he was sent to jail.
But chilling documentary Psychopath with Piers Morgan reveals Charity, who has another child, has forgiven Bennett for his sickening crime.
She tells the journalist: “He’s human. He’ll be nice, personable, polite. Paris is very charming when he wants to be. I mean, he’s a psychopath.”
Bennett has an IQ of 141, which qualifies him as a genius, and has been diagnosed as a psychopath by experts – meaning he holds personality traits such as extreme egocentricity and a lack of ability to love.
But he is up for parole in a few years time – causing anguish for Charity who found out after her son was jailed that she was once the intended target of his depraved plan.
Smirking Bennett hauntingly tells Piers: “For many years, there was just this hot, flaming ball of wrath in the pit of my stomach and it was directed at my mother.
“And one of the reasons why I chose to kill my sister and not someone else is because I knew that by doing that I could hurt my mother in the worst possible way, because I had always known, as a child, that the most devastating thing to my mother would be the loss of one of her children, and I found a way to take away both her children in one fell swoop.”
While Charity was working in a local bar, Bennett told the babysitter to leave early before calmly making his way into his sister’s room.
As the tragic youngster slept in her bed, the killer launched into a ferocious attack – beating Ella and choking her before knifing her 17 times.
He then called a pal and chatted to him for six minutes before calling cops, who raced round to arrest him.
Bennett was caged for 40 years – the highest sentence a juvenile gets for murder in Texas – and is eligible for parole in 2027.
When asked if she fears he will try to kill her again, Charity replies: “Yes. I think under the right circumstances he would do it again.
“I’m afraid of Paris still, but it’s possible to love him and forgive him and still be afraid of him.”
But Bennett claims he would not kill again if he was released from prison.
He told the show: “The only person I’m dangerous to is myself because the very moment I feel the chains slipping and the bars bending, the very moment I detect that dark part of myself coming back out again, I would remove myself from the equation.
“Every single person walking around has it in him or her to commit murder. Margaret Atwood once wrote that if we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
