| 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
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people our saying that adams murderers should go through what he went through but they shouldnt i knew adam i was friends with adam they took him away from me but i wouldnt wish anyone to go through this even his murderers ... if we did this to them it makes us twice as worse .. people say they should get killed but that let them of easy ... i know adam wouldnt want us to be angry or upset he would want us to live our lifes to the full and live his memory on remember him for who he was not how he died ... please remember adam on this site and not the people who took his life thankyou xx
hey cheeky face ... missing you so much but i know your in a much better place nothing and no one can replace you hunni ... hey can you remember hen you jump over my mum when she bent over to get pick something up you bout gave her a heart attack but it was so funni wasnt it ... you always had a smile on your face so cheeki and loved to make people laugh you loved your animals didnt you? hunni i know your walking hand in hand with god now i know you are in a safe place getting looked after were no pain can occur missing you so much darling xx godbless you always and shine that star of yours so bright xxx
i am so so sorry
Adam i am so sorry sweetheart i am sitting here crying my eyes out for you what evil monsters to do what they did to you son i pray to god that your looking down on them from heaven knowing that their lives wont ever be the same i pray that they too will have a horrible death you didnt deserve it young man and i hope you meet up with my son he will take good care of you god bless you adam love to your mum and family xxx
hiya adam sweetheart, so very sorry i havent visited for ages, but ive been thinkin of you always. reading through your messages you havent been short of visitors babe, you are loved & missed by many, god bless you darling xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
sending love & thought to your mum & family & carla xxxxx
xXx Sleep tight babe xXx
i can rememba the day the news came on and we found out you wer gone like it was yesterday. such a sick and horrific way to lose such a young and beatiful life. i didnt no you well but a few of my friends did and it still hurts to this day as it will forever noin what you went through. we no u now rest in peace with the angels darlin and thers not a day that goes by wen ur not thort of and truely missed.
evil
I too cannot believe what i have just read, hanging is way to good a punishment for the scum that did this to the poor boy. My thoughts are with your parents, god only knows how you cope xx bless you all xx
so sorry
i can not belive what i have read ,they should all rot in hell they should bring back hanging so they suffer as poor adam did what must go through they sick minds is totally behond me rest in peace little man sending love to you and your family xxx
I can not understand why you was taken from your family and friends,what a waste of life, may those responsable for this dreadful crime understand what this awlful act has caused for Adams family and friends.R IP young man your soul will alway go on in others, when the sun shine and the rain falls you will alway be there XXXX
eye for an eye
eye for an eye
kylie (mel from clermont,australia relation: passerby
i am utterly speechless, those bastards need to be given to to those who loved adam, i hope they rot in hell, there is no justice.... i say an eye for an eye god bless you adam
how evil
i have just read the full story of this poor boy how his mum is strong enough to get through this i will never know .thinking of what those evil lads did to her dear son.i realy cant believe what i read i cant blame people who had swore in this site as enought to make a priest swear.time all these drug dealers where caught then would be no drugs for them to take as that got to have been the cause of them doing that evil thing anyone right in there mind could not do that.my thoughts realy go out to adams mum and all his family and friends god bless you adam your safe with god now darling no one can ever hurt you again rip xxxxxxx
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