A notorious teenage killer who bludgeoned her own mother to death with a friend has died at the age of 88.
Pauline Parker was just 16 when she and Juliet Hulme, 15, committed the murder in New Zealand in 1954 – a case that inspired a Kate Winslet film – and served just five years behind bars before being released under new identities.
Incredibly, the pair both landed in Scotland.
The Orcadian has now reported Parker, who went under the name Hilary Nathan, passed away while living in retirement housing in the village of St Margaret’s Hope, in Orkney.
Her death was registered in
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