| Location | Leics |
| Age | 14 years |
| Date of Birth | 3/1989 |
| Visitors | 4,582 since 04/08/2007 |
| Creator |
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
Passing By.
i didnt know adam personally but i know people he knew him..
iv just come across this page and i read what happened!
it made me feel sick and i cant beleive anybody could do that to a person..
rest in peace adam. would have been nice to meet you.. maybe some other time.. =) x
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God must have known there would be times
We'd need a word of cheer
Someone to praise a triumph
Or brush away a tear.
He must have known we'd need to share
The joy of 'little things'
In order to appreciate
The happiness life brings.
I think he knew our troubled hearts
Would sometimes throb with pain
At trials and misfortunes
Or some goals we can't attain.
He knew we'd need the comfort
Of an understanding heart
To give us strength and courage
To make a fresh, new start.
He knew we'd need companionship
Unselfish...lasting. ..true,
And so God answered the heart's great need
With CHERISHED GTS FRIENDS....like you.
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xx Always in our hearts and thoughts xx
SAND AND STONES
SAND AND STONE
TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING
THROUGH THE DESERT
DURING SOME POINT OF THE
JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN
ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND
SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE
IN THE FACE
THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED
WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT
SAYING ANYTHING,
WROTE IN THE SAND
'TODAY MY BEST FRIEND
SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE'
THEY KEPT ON WALKING,
UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS,
WHERE THEY DECIDED
TO TAKE A BATH
THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN
SLAPPED GOT STUCK IN THE
MIRE! AND STARTED DROWNING,
BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM.
AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM
THE NEAR DROWNING,
HE WROTE ON A STONE:
'TODAY MY BEST FRIEND
SAVED MY LIFE'
THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED
AND SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND
ASKED HIM, 'AFTER I HURT YOU,
YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW,
YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?'
THE FRIEND REPLIED
'WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US
WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN
IN SAND, WHERE WINDS OF
FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY.
BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES
SOMETHING GOOD FOR US,
WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE
WHERE NO WIND
CAN EVER ERASE IT'
LEARN TO WRITE
YOUR HURTS IN
THE SAND AND TO
CARVE YOUR
BENEFITS IN STONE.
THEY SAY IT TAKES A
MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON,
AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM,
A DAY TO LOVE THEM,
BUT THEN
AN ENTIRE LIFE
TO FORGET THEM.
SEND THIS TO
THE PEOPLE YOU'LL NEVER
FORGET.
I JUST DID.
TAKE THE TIME TO LIVE!
DO NOT VALUE THE THINGS
YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE, BUT VALUE
WHO YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE!
AND IF I HAPPEN TO GET IT BACK,
THEN I KNOW MY PLACE IN YOUR LIFE
im sorry.. i know nothing can make it better by me some stanger saying sorry but my heart is with the family and friends things like this should never happen!!!!!!
XXXX
miss yooh
readin wt happened tooh yooh always brings tears to
my eyes but then i remember your bubbly
personality and all the good times we had
love yooh and i alwaiis will
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never forgotten xxxxxxxxxxR.I.P
hey
hey gawjus hope ur okaii
missin yew mre and mre each daii
cumin tew visit yew soon babii
luv yew
yew will always be with me
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i miss u so muchg i cant believe that u got took away from us like u did i miss u soo much i dont know wot to do without u
your walk
i see the walk in the paper today,
to all of you i wish you all the luck.
i would love to off come but work,
again goodluck,ADAM keep everyone
strong n sleep tight hun
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
RIP
May God bless you Adam and your family and may they continue to have the strength to go on.
I cannot believe what I have just read, my heart aches for you and your loved ones. I don't know what type of world we live in when people can even contemplate the depravity they carried out let alone do it. May you, little angel, rest in peace.
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