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Nine years ago he was a baby-faced tearaway dubbed “The Imp of Satan”.
Now Robert Heneghan is starting a life sentence for murder.
He was just 10 when he became the youngest child to receive an ASBO after terrorising his home town.
Now, aged 19, he has been found guilty of stabbing to death a man at a party.
A court heard how factory worker Sam Bee, also 19, attempted to calm down jobless Heneghan as he scuffled with another party-goer, only to be told: “Shut up or I’ll knock you out”.
Seconds later Heneghan knifed Sam in the chest.
The victim managed to flee but collapsed and died.
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After being found guilty of murder by a jury, details of Heneghan’s troubled past were revealed.
He began his criminal career aged ten, terrorising his local housing estate.
His crimes included threatening two terrified young women at a tanning salon with ball bearing guns and stripped a nine-year-old boy, forcing him to run home naked.
In just six months between June and November 2003, he and an accomplice were blamed for 43 incidents.
Eventually both were served with seven year ASBOs after a court heard how they burgled houses and stole jewellery.
They threw missiles, water bombs and paint at people, cars and property and set off fire alarms.
Police officers tried to befriend the pair by taking them to play football. But one boy stole the soccer coach’s mobile phone and the other wrecked the changing room hot water boiler.
Last August Heneghan knifed Sam Bee at a party in Blackpool, Lancs, organised by the victim’s sister Sarah Bee, 21.
She told the jury at Preston Crown Court: “Heneghan sort of looked at Sam with a bit of a smirk on his face.
"He calmly walked into the kitchen and he just stabbed him. He just threw his arm out and stabbed him straight in the chest. Sam was just stood there doing nothing.”
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After the attack Sarah said she bundled her brother out of the door to protect him and added: “I didn’t think the stabbing had been very serious because Sam didn’t make a noise to say he was hurt.
“He just said ‘what have you done that for?’ and he was still stood up.”
Sam’s girlfriend Lauren Binks, 17, who confronted Heneghan after the attack, told the jury: “I shouted ‘I’m his girlfriend, are you going to stab me?’ and he said ‘I will’.”
And fellow guest Sarah McKenna, added: “Someone said to him: ‘why didn’t you just use your fists’ and he said ‘I wanted to stab him.’ He said it with no emotion, no nothing. Pure evil.”
Heneghan, from Blackpool, who denied murder, told the court there was only a small bit of blood on the knife and he thought it had just “grazed” the teenager.
He said: “I felt it hit him but I didn’t know where or how deep. I thought he would jump back to be honest.”
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