| Location | Leics |
| Age | 14 years |
| Date of Birth | 3/1989 |
| Visitors | 4,582 since 04/08/2007 |
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Adam the apple of our eye always there ... funny outgoing such an inspiration to us all one true
legend always missed never forgotten taken by four of his so called friends god bless you adam and
shine brightly on your loved ones xxx
BBC NEWS
http://news.bbc.co.u k/1/hi/england/leicester shire/3239546.stm
Teenager Adam Morrell died from head injuries and strangulation after being beaten and tortured for
at least three hours, the trial in Nottingham was told.
A pathologist said the 14-year-old suffered a total of 280 injuries.
One of the defendants told police he looked "like an alien" after being kicked like a
football.
Another said he was completely unrecognisable.
Finally, the music was turned up at the house in Loughborough to cover the sound of his body being
sawn into pieces.
Three days after the schoolboy's death, a group walking by the Grand Union Canal in the town
found a black plastic bag wrapped in silver tape, floating in the water.
Body parts
When they fished out the package, they saw what looked like fingers.
The bag was found to contain a severed arm.
Other body parts turned up around Loughborough over the next few days.
A woman found legs in another plastic bag.
A bag of clothes was discovered by police at an electricity sub-station.
The boy's head was found by police divers at the bottom of the canal.
The last Adam's family had heard from him was when he phoned his father, days before his death,
to say he was staying with friends.
Those friends were: Matthew Welsh, 19; Welsh's girlfriend Sarah Morris, 17; former soldier
Daniel Biggs, 19; and Nathan Barnett, 27.
On Wednesday, 19-year-old Matthew Welsh was convicted of murdering the schoolboy, while his
girlfriend Sarah Morris was found guilty of assaulting the youngster.
Another teenager, Daniel Biggs, 19, was cleared by the jury of murder or of any part in the assault.
Nathan Barnett pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Boiling water
Welsh, the son of a Burton on Trent policeman, had told Leicestershire Police that they were
drinking beer and whisky, smoking cannabis and taking ecstasy at the house in Havelock Street on the
evening of 14 November, 2002.
Welsh said events took a turn for the worse when Adam threatened to tell police about their drug
use.
The court had been told that all four of them kicked and attacked Adam.
He curled up in a ball and wept as he was savagely beaten.
Welsh told police that Barnett had later scalded Adam with a combination of boiling water and sugar.
Barnett testified during the trial that Biggs helped him by putting his foot on Adam to squeeze the
life out of the youngster.
He told a jury that he had played the children's game paper, scissors, stone with Biggs to
decide who would kill Adam.
Biggs denied joining in the assault and said he had gone to a homeless persons' hostel.
He said Barnett, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, had
killed Adam on his own.
All four pleaded guilty to conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
Sarah Morris told police she joined in the attack on Adam and said he looked "like an
alien" after being kicked "like a football".
Showed remorse
Morris said Adam had started moaning after a drink-and-drugs session and was told to shut up.
He was kicked because he was "bringing us down", she said.
The three others hit and kicked Adam and urged her to do the same, so she punched him in the head,
chest and legs as well as in the face.
"The assault lasted about three hours, possibly slightly longer," Morris said.
Frances Oldham, defending Morris, said the teenage girl was the only member of the gang who had ever
shown any remorse for what had happened.
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO TAKE MY TIME TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAE COME ON HERE AND LIT CANDLES LEFT
PICTURES AS WELL AS LEAVE MESSAGES ... NO ONE CAN DESCRIBE THE PAIN OF LOOSING ADAM THE WAY I DID
THE WAY HIS FAMILY DID AND THE WAY HIS FRIENDS DID ... THANK YOU XXX
NIGHT ADAM SLEEP TIGHT MATE, MISSING YOU MORE AND MORE EACH DAY HONEY XXXXXX
My heart weeps for you and your family
How I hope that the people who did those terrible, inhuman things to you Adam rot in hell. For you to lose your life in such a traumatic, heinous manner doesn't bear thinking about. My thoughts will be with you, your mum and family always. God bless you Adam ... Rest in Peace love.
What a truly heartbreaking story it is unbelievable how any human being could do this to another. I lost my Grandson to Leukaemia recently he suffered for 8 years and died aged 9.
I promised myself I would try not to cry today. I was doing OK, until I read your story. God Bless Adam and love to Dawnxx
YOU DONT KNOW ME..
Hello there brave solider you dont know me but i just wish i could have knew you im sure alot of people miss you lots, But i would jst like to say u are so beautiful it its clear alot of people miss u alot who can blame them you looked beautiful.There are some sick people in the world. I think that you were so brave and im leving my condolices to your family to have to have lost youu! Am sure you would have been alot older than me now? But i only wish i could turn out as brave as you are! Your story brough a tears to my eye.
REST IN PEACE DARLIN
AMY K , 13
SCOTLAND
xxxxx
god blees X
this makes me ashamed to be a human being. my thoughts and prayers are with adam and his family
god bless
well i have cryed for 10 mins before i could put this tribute in for Adam i have never read such a awfull way to die how could they do all that must not be human.i realy feel for Adams family as they will never never forget how poor Adam died .i realy do hope he didnt suffer to much .the people who did this should never see daylight again.enjoy your afterlife with the dear lord Adam your safe now with the lord rip xxxxx
r.i.p
:( i have never read anything as bad as that before,that was awfull what they did to poor adam.i really hope they suffer..
you were taken away,way way to early you had a life ahead of you.watch over all the ones that really care about you,all my love to family/true friends!!....
That was nasty what they did,that brought tears to my eyes.
i really really hope they get what they deserve.
r.i.p young one
another taken by evil
so sorry for the loss of your son adam evil ba***ds wild animals arnt the word cant think of any word to describe how any human could do that.please try stay stong and tresure your memories of adam .safe in gods garden away from evil .god bless rip xxxxx
so sorry
my god i have never read anything so awfull poor Adam how could they do that to the poor boy i hope they get what they deserve,your are better where you are Adam away from this cruel world we live in today.my thoughts go out to all Adams family and friends at this very sad time .watch over all Adam that love and miss you so much darling .you didnt deserve that at all but they will get paid back for what they did to you.god bless you darling rip xxxxxx
bbc news 2007 xxxx
The mother of a Loughborough schoolboy who was tortured and dismembered almost five years ago says coping with his death has been 'a living hell'.
Adam Morrell, 14, was strangled at a house by friends who cut up his body with a saw and dumped his head in a canal in November 2002.
His mother Dawn, who spoke to BBC Radio Leicester about his death, is calling for a youth centre built in his memory.
She said she wants something positive to come out of her son's death.
'He is in my thoughts every day - when I wake up and when I go to sleep,' she said.
'Happy-go-lucky'
Ms Morrell said: 'It was a living hell - and it has been very difficult to get myself motivated.
'But now I have a new lease on life because I have something to aim for. I am aiming to make a difference in Loughborough.
'Adam was happy-go-lucky and would have done anything for anybody.
'I would rather it was me than him, but I cannot turn the clock back. It was horrendous. I was praying they had made a mistake but I knew in my heart of hearts it was him.'
She wants to organise the creation of a youth centre for teenagers in the town to help them 'stay out of trouble'.
A trial in Nottingham heard that Adam suffered a total of 280 injuries.
Matthew Welsh - who was 19 at the time of the killing - was convicted of murdering Adam while his girlfriend Sarah Morris, then 17, was found guilty of assault.
A group of friends said they were drinking beer and whisky, smoking cannabis and taking ecstasy before the murder took place.
Ms Morrell said: 'How anyone could do that to another human being is beyond me.'
In tributes after his funeral, Adam was described as 'a charming, cheeky young chap - a very articulate young man who loved to talk'.
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