Content Warning/Trigger Warning: Graphic descriptions of violence and torture
70 year old Edna Phillips lived a quiet and secluded life with her white terrier Chum on the Penywaun estate in South Wales. Unfortunately, this estate had become increasingly dangerous as unemployment rates rose leading to higher levels of crime. Miss Phillips herself became the target of abuse after she complained about a family on the estate. She was verbally abused, rubbish was dumped in her garden, she had stones thrown at her and faeces were smeared on her house. Despite all of this evidence to support her request to be moved off the estate, the council failed to do so. The abuse would peak on the 16th July 1992 when Miss Phillips was attacked in her own home, she was tortured and murdered in the most brutal and vicious ways.
Content Warning/Trigger Warning: Graphic descriptions of violence and torture
70 year old Edna Phillips lived a quiet and secluded life with her white terrier Chum on the Penywaun estate in South Wales. Unfortunately, this estate had become increasingly dangerous as unemployment rates rose leading to higher levels of crime. Miss Phillips herself became the target of abuse after she complained about a family on the estate. She was verbally abused, rubbish was dumped in her garden, she had stones thrown at her and faeces were smeared on her house. Despite all of this evidence to support her request to be moved off the estate, the council failed to do so. The abuse would peak on the 16th July 1992 when Miss Phillips was attacked in her own home, she was tortured and murdered in the most brutal and vicious ways.
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Resources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Edna_Phillips
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tina-molloy-aberdare-murder-inquest-16982279
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/brutal-killing-pensioner-two-teenage-15209482
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/despair-and-death-on-an-estate-without-hope-peter-dunn-looks-at-the-background-to-the-brutal-murder-1496695.html
‘THE MOB IS LOOKING FOR REVENGE’ 18th March 1993, Irish Independent
British Newspaper Archives
‘THE END COLUMN’ 12th March 1993, Virginia Heath, Evening Sentinel (Opinions Page)
British Newspaper Archive
‘SHE WOULDN’T HAVE HURT A FLY, SAYS PAL’ 9th March 1993, The Journal
British Newspaper Archives
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3479709.stm
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Felt so sorry for this poor lady. What a dreadful way to die. As for the girls that murdered her, l do hope that they had flashbacks about they did. Cannot imagine such rage inside them making them so dreadfully violent. Their parents have a lot to answer for. No baby comes into this world with murder in their hearts. Cruelty has to have been something they knew a great deal about. Poor poor Edna.
