HE SEEMED like the perfect older brother, cuddling and playing with his little sister and selflessly caring for her when she was poorly.
It made their mum, Charity, who had brought them up as a single parent, so pleased and proud.
To her astonishment, she was to learn from Paris that he had hated his sister from the moment she was born and had just been pretending to like her all along.
“I saw no signs of that at all,” says Charity. “His love for her seemed totally authentic to me.
“From the moment that Paris killed Ella, I had to become a divided mother. Nobody prepares you for when it’s the two people you love most in the world and one kills the other. What do you do then?”
Charity rakes over the horrors of her past in the TV documentary, Evil Lives Here: My Child The Killer.
As a teenager, Charity Bennett became addicted to drugs. She found herself pregnant and about to be a single mother.
“That’s when I got sober,” she says.
“I had a purpose. When Paris was born, I had no idea that there was an actual real love like that, but I had dreamed about it my entire life, hoping that it was real. I’d never seen anything so perfect in my life.
