A schoolgirl accused of helping her boyfriend knife a dinner lady and her 13-year-old daughter to death later told police she had 'felt like murdering for quite a while'.
The teenager, aged 14 at the time, said the killings 'just sort of happened' despite it being alleged the couple planned them at a McDonald's restaurant the night before.
Jurors heard that in a police interview the girl told officers she had wanted to murder Elizabeth and Katie Edwards herself, but she was put off by the smell of their blood.
She added: 'A gun would have been easier but we don't have any really in this country... the knife was a better solution.'
A court heard she reached out to grab the hand of Ms Edwards, 49, as her teenage boyfriend held a pillow over the church-goer's face. He had stabbed the mother in the neck and there were blood splatters up the wall, jurors were told.
The bodies of 49-year-old dinner lady Elizabeth Edwards and her 13-year-old daughter Katie, (both pictured in 2014) were found at an address in Spalding, Lincolnshire, on April 15 this year