Britain’s Youngest Female Killer

She was known as ‘The Devil’s Daughter’

Jacob Wilkins
CrimeBeat

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Sharon Carr had a difficult upbringing. Her father was a violent drunk and her mother had a terrible temper.

At the age of eleven, she started smoking cannabis and developed a habit of murdering pets in her local area.

But the killing of animals was never enough to satisfy Sharon’s murderous appetite.

The murder of Katie Rackliff

In the summer of 1992, Katie Rackliff split up with her boyfriend. To take her mind off the recent break-up, the eighteen-year-old hairdresser went clubbing on the 6th June with her friends in Camberley, Surrey.

The group of friends enjoyed themselves at the Ragamuffin Nightclub until the early hours of the following morning. After the club closed, Katie started to walk home.

But she never completed her journey. Her body was found in the streets of Farnborough — a nearby town three miles away from the club.

Katie had been violently stabbed. There were twenty-seven separate wounds and some of the knife blows had gone straight through her body. Her sexual organs had also been mutilated, but there was no evidence of sexual assault.

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