Boy torturers had ‘toxic home life’

AN 11-year-old who tortured two young boys watched ultra-violent movies as part of a home life of “routine aggression, violence and chaos”, a judge heard yesterday.

Boy torturers had ‘toxic home life’

The court was told of the “toxic home life” of two brothers who were just 10 and 11 years old when they subjected two boys, aged nine and 11, to a 90-minute violent ordeal in Edlington, South Yorkshire.

A barrister outlined how one of the boys watched the gruesome Saw movies when he was as young as 10 and was also familiar with the Chucky films as well as pornography DVDs.

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