Elizabeth Edwards, 49, and 13-year-old daughter Katie were killed as they slept at their home in Spalding
- Today revealed their killers were Ms Edwards' own daughter, Kim, and her tearaway boyfriend Lucas Markham
- The killers - compared to Bonnie and Clyde during her trial - watched Twilight after the gruesome murders
- After they were given an indefinite detention terms, a judge has lifted an order preventing their identification
- Appeal judges reduced their sentences to life with a shorter minimum tariff behind bars of 17-and-a-half years
A dinner lady stabbed to death in her bed was killed by her teenage daughter and her boyfriend, it can be revealed for the first time today.
Elizabeth Edwards, 49, and 13-year-old daughter Katie were murdered as they slept at their home in Spalding, Lincolnshire in April last year.
It can be reported today that their killers were Ms Edwards' own daughter, Kim, and her tearaway boyfriend Lucas Markham, who were both 14 at the time, and their crime was motivated by petty jealousy.
After the killings, the couple, likened to Bonnie and Clyde during their trial, spent the next 36 hours in the house where theyhad sex, shared a bath, ate tea cakes and ice cream and watched four Twilight vampire films.
The teenagers were jailed for murder for a minimum of 20 years in November for what a judge described as the 'executions' but could not be named for legal reasons.
After the press spent eight months pushing for their identities to be revealed, restrictions on naming the pair were lifted by three judges at London's Court of Appeal today and the full, harrowing facts of the case can now finally be reported.
Appeal judges also reduced their sentences to life with a shorter minimum tariff behind bars of 17-and-a-half years.
Embittered schoolgirl was jealous of her younger sibling
The identities of the victims could also not be disclosed during last year's trial at Nottingham Crown Court because it would have identified the defendants.
Nor could the real motive for the killings be reported: jealousy and sibling rivalry.
Kim Edwards claimed her mother loved her sister more and treated her 'like an angel'. She said her sister 'got all the fuss' and 'took my mother away from me'.
The schoolgirl also held a 'grudge' against her mother for hitting her in the face at a caravan park when she was just eight years old.
A police report said the Christian dinner lady 'completely lost it' and hit her in the jaw in front of her sister when she complained about a television being broken.
Both girls were taken into care and spent four months with a foster family before returning to their mother. But Kim 'never forgave' her for the attack and became a 'ticking time bomb'.
She plotted the murders after her mother told her she was going to end up like her estranged father, Peter Edwards, who was described in court as an 'abusive drug addict'.
It was said he forced his wife to flee to a women's refuge and she prevented him from seeing the children as a result.
As she was growing up, Kim sought a relationship with her father and resented not being allowed to see him, because she believed 'I would have been his favourite'.
Churchgoing Ms Edwards strongly disapproved of her daughter's 'toxic relationship' with Markham and warned her: 'He's just like your dad'.
Kim confided in Lucas and the pair adopted a 'Bonnie and Clyde' mentality of 'us against the world' - which led them to commit one of the most notorious offences in UK criminal history.
After the killings, Kim said she 'got rid of the biggest problem that made me feel depressed'.
In a shocking police interview, she told detectives: 'Ever since I was young I never got on with my mum. I knew she favoured my sister more than me. She said she didn't but I knew she was lying.
'They would talk together and whenever I got into an argument with my mum, Katie would always take her side.
'Whenever I tried to talk to Katie she would say 'shut up' and walk away, but she always expected me to listen to her problems.
'Lucas just hates me being upset. He didn't like my mum or my sister for that reason.
'I got rid of the biggest problem that made me feel depressed, which was my mum.
'It was a relief. My mum doesn't have to deal with me being suicidal anymore and my sister doesn't have to go through the heartbreak.'
Pair fought lengthy legal battle to retain their anonymity
Lucas pleaded guilty to the murders, and Kim was found guilty after a trial last year - but legal orders meant they could not be named because of their age.
Now both aged 15, they fought a behind the scenes legal battle to retain their anonymity and appeal against their sentences.
However, yesterday the Court of Appeal ruled that it was 'overwhelmingly in the public interest' for them to be named.
Judge Sir Brian Leveson described it as an 'exceptional case', saying the teenage killers had 'jointly decided' to kill Ms Edwards and her 'entirely innocent' sister.
He said the facts of the case 'cannot be properly understood without identifying that the appellants murdered the mother and 13-year-old sister of Kim Edwards'.
Saying there was no evidence that reporting their identities would adversely affect their future rehabilitation, he added: 'The reality is that anonymity lasts only until 18 years of age and both appellants face a very considerable term of detention that will stretch long into their adult life.
'The process of reflecting on their dreadful crimes, addressing their offending behaviour and starting a process of rehabilitation will be a lengthy one.'
Appeal judges also reduced Kim and Lucas's sentences to life with a shorter minimum tarrif behind bars of 17-and-a-half years.
When sentencing the pair Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said the case had 'few parallels in modern criminal history'.
He said they had a 'toxic' relationship, and acted in a grotesque way after the stabbings.
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave told the teenagers: 'The killings were brutal in the form of executions and both victims, particularly Elizabeth Edwards, must have suffered terribly in the last minutes of their lives.'
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