Britain’s youngest feminine double assassin who was 15 when she tortured girl to dying earlier than suffocating her personal father set to have parole listening to
Britain’s youngest female double-murderer who tortured a woman with a cheese grater before pouring salt in her wounds is up for parole.
Lorraine Thorpe was only 15 when she murdered her father, Desmond, 43, and Rosalyn Hunt, 41, in Suffolk in 2009 alongside Paul Clarke, then 41.
Thorpe, who was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum tariff of 14 years behind bars, was convicted at the Old Bailey in London in 2010.
She finished her minimum prison term in August 2023, becoming eligible for parole.
Thorpe, who did not engage with the process, was refused parole the same year after being deemed to be too great a risk to be released or moved to an open prison.
Now, 31-year-old Thorpe is listed to appear again in February and is expected to give evidence for a new parole hearing.
The new hearing will be held in private and a decision will be made within 14-days.
A spokesperson for the Parole Board said: ‘An oral hearing has been listed for the parole review of Lorraine Thorpe and is scheduled to take place in February 2026.
‘Parole Board decisions are solely focused on what risk a prisoner could represent to the public if released and whether that risk is manageable in the community.’
Britain’s youngest double-murderer Lorraine Thorpe (pictured) is up for parole
The teenager smothered her father, Desmond Thorpe (pictured), to death after murdering a woman with accomplice Paul Clarke
Thorpe was 16 when she was jointly convicted of two murders with Clarke after a seven-week trial at Ipswich Crown Court.
The court heard their first victim, Rosalyn Hunt, was tortured and beaten to death over the course of several days at a flat in Mountbatten Court, Ipswich, with Thorpe responsible for punching, kicking and stamping on her head.
It was heard Ms Hunt had a cheese grater rubbed into her face until she bled, salt poured into her open wounds and her hair set alight with a lighter.
Her body was found by police on August 9, 2009 after a member of the public raised concerns about her safety.
A post-mortem examination showed she died from a heavy blow to her neck and chest area, had nine broken ribs and sustained multiple external injuries to her body.
Only days following her murder, Thorpe smothered her father Desmond with a cushion amid concerns he would reveal details of Ms Hunt’s death to police.
Mr Thorpe, a ‘vulnerable’ alcoholic, was also kicked as he lay on the ground. Thorpe would later admit to police they would find ‘her trainer prints on his head.’
His body was found by police on the morning of August 10, 2009 following a tip-off that a man had died in Limerick Close, Ipswich.
Thorpe and Clarke were arrested immediately in connection with the murders after police suspected the deaths were linked.
Rosalyn Hunt (pictured) was tortured over days by Thorpe and Clarke, with Thorpe responsible for kicking, punching and stamping on her head
Paul Clarke (pictured), who carried out the murders alongside Thorpe, was found dead in prison at HMP Whitemoor
The court heard Thorpe lived with her father after her parents split aged 12, going between squalid flats and even tents.
It was during this time Thorpe met Clarke – a known street bully in Ipswich – and the two began drinking together.
On August 25, 2009, Thorpe and Clarke appeared in court charged with the murders of Ms Hunt and Mr Thorpe.
The pair denied the charges but gave no evidence during their trial.
During the trial, Prosecution barrister Ros Jones said: ’Rosalyn Hunt became a prisoner in her own home and died from multiple injuries due to the continuous attacks she suffered at their hands.
‘Desmond Thorpe, who was killed days later, had been smothered for reasons known only to Clarke and Thorpe.’
Jurors heard evidence from a friend of Thorpe’s who said she confessed to them to being a murderer.
A fellow inmate added that Thorpe had spoken of her father’s murder on the anniversary of his death.
After over 17 hours of deliberation, the jury found Thorpe and Clarke guilty the double murders by majority verdicts of 10-2.
In his sentencing remarks, Judge Mr Justice Sweeny said: ’She [Thorpe] was responsible for protracted kicking, punching and stamping on Rosalyn, who was not fit to defend herself effectively from the outset.
‘By the end of those attacks she was completely helpless. Far from being sorry, Lorraine appears to have gloried in it, describing to her friends at one stage how she stamped on Rosalyn’s head.
‘The only possible explanation for his death (father) can be the fear that he would go and tell the police what happened to Rosalyn Hunt.
‘I don’t accept that she was entirely under the control of Mr Clarke.
‘She is someone who can be quite stubborn and wilful and is capable of being highly manipulative herself… Her story is an appalling one.’
Clarke was jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years.
He died aged 46 after being found unconscious at HMP Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire on September 1, 2014.
