Unemployed John Maden lured his 12-year-old niece, Tia Rigg, to his home on the pretext of babysitting, but he drugged her and acted out his fantasies on the unsuspecting youngster, inflicting a horrific catalogue of sexual injuries
before stabbing her and strangling her with a guitar wire. Passing sentence, Mr Justice Keith said that in his case the mandatory life sentence for murder must mean just that – and he will never be released.
The judge said: It is inescapable that Tia Rigg died because you decided to realise your fantasies about torturing and killing a young child. The fact that you chose your 12-year-old niece, who had put her trust in you, makes
what you did all the more unspeakable, as was the fact that all of this was planned by you and you lured her into your home by pretending you wanted her to babysit for you. The Daily Mail picked up the porn angle and wrote:
A man obsessed with violent child porn and snuff videos was today jailed for life for the torture, rape and murder of his 12-year-old niece. Maden had become obsessed with violent porn he
downloaded from the internet, the court heard. n the year or so prior to April this year, the defendant had developed what can properly be described as an obsessive interest in images and literature relating to
paedophilia, rape and torture. He had an extensive library of such materials which included literature dealing with methods of killing.
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