Shocking footage has revealed the moment a murderer admitted to killing his pregnant partner, her two children and a third child.
On December 21, 32-year-old Damien Bendall was handed a whole life order after he confessed to killing his 35-year-old girlfriend Terri Harris, her 11-year-old daughter Lacey, her 13-year-old son John Paul Bennett, and Lacey's 11-year-old friend, Connie Gent.
Bendall had disclosed the killings that happened at the sleepover in Killamarsh, Derbyshire, on September 19 last year. He also pleaded guilty to raping Lacey in the "brutal, vicious, and cruel attacks," and revealed that he smashed the victims' skulls with a claw hammer, per The Mirror.
Now, a new video released by Derbyshire Police has emerged and shows the haunting moment the quadruple killer admitted to his brutal slayings.
Watch the startling video below:In the clip, police officers walk up to Bendall outside of his house and see that he has blood on himself. The alleged killer then said that he stabbed himself.
When police asked him if he knew what was going to happen, he had a chilling response, saying: "I know what is going to happen. I'm going to go to prison again."
The officer then responds with: "Have you done something to anyone else?" to which Bendall replies "yeah," adding: "I've murdered four people."
According to the Mirror, Bendall also remarked in a police interview after his arrest that the house was "covered in claret" as he confessed to the horrendous murders.
"The whole house is covered in claret. I used the hammer. I didn’t realize what I did until I walked into my room and saw my missus and my daughter," he said.
"Bet you don’t usually get four murders in Killamarsh do you - well, five [murders] because my missus was having a baby," he added.
After having horribly slaughtered his partner and the three kids, Bendall "took John's Xbox, ordered a taxi, went to Sheffield," where he then exchanged the console "for drugs," as reported by ITV News.
He later told the police that he had consumed "three to four bags of cocaine and then blacked out," which prosecutor Louis Mably KC said shows "an indication of the sheer callous depravity of the defendant's conduct that night".
During the court hearing, the prosecutor told Justice Sweeney that the Crown would be pursuing a whole life term for Bendall, given the seriousness of the crimes, per The Telegraph.
"In view of all this, the prosecution’s submission as to sentence is that the seriousness of the offending is so exceptionally high, it falls into the category of case that calls for the imposition of a whole life order, rather than a minimum term," he said.
Vanessa Marshall KC also said that Bendall agreed he should be handed a whole life order and added he still claims to have no memory of the attack.
"Even with the suggestion that he was controlling and coercive towards Terri Harris, his actions that night remain largely inexplicable and motiveless," she said.
In a victim impact statement read to the court, Jason Bennett, the father of the deceased children, said: "The murder of my children has destroyed and taken my life away."
Charles Gent, the father of Connie, also said in his statement: "The murder of my daughter, Connie, has completely torn my life apart. I feel like I have become a lost soul trying to navigate my way through life without her here."
Angela Smith, Harris's mother, described in her statement how Lacey and John would tell her that they were scared of monsters, saying: "I would tell them there was no such thing as monsters. How wrong I was."
