He had started using hard drugs as a teenager and told the parole board he wouldn’t have killed Benn if he had been in his “right mind.” He asked the board to allow him “to exist" so he could be a support for his daughter.
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He said he never planned to kill Benn and doesn’t remember much about the killing, but acknowledged that the attack made him a “monster.”
Claudia Benn's family members want 'an eye for an eye' after her 1998 murder
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