"Teenager 'killed pensioner to become immortal'
A vampire-obsessed teenager killed an elderly neighbour and drank her blood because he wanted to be immortal, a court was told.
The 17-year-old youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of butchering 90-year-old widow Mabel Leyshon at her home in Llanfair, Anglesey.
Mrs Leyshon's chest was "ripped open" and her heart removed before being wrapped in newspaper and placed in a saucepan on top of a silver platter.
Pokers were left crossed at her feet in the shape of either a cross or inverted cross, a jury at Mold Crown Court was told.
Roger Thomas QC, prosecuting, said: "By November 24, 2001, the defendant had learned quite a lot about vampires, certainly enough to satisfy his two main questions - how do I become a vampire and how do I become immortal?
"He had decided what he had to do - a sacrifice, the murder of another human being was necessary to achieve his ends.
"And with his parents away he committed what we submit to you was a planned, deliberate murder to satisfy his own grotesque and selfish ends."
The youth has denied murder.
The jury was told the teenager - who denies murder - got into Mrs Leyshon's house by throwing a slab through the back door window while Mrs Leyshon watched television in her lounge. He then attacked her from behind, stabbing her a total of 22 times .
One wound, a deep gash to her chest through which the pensioner's heart was literally torn out, was 20 centimetres long and 23 centimetres wide.
Mr Thomas said that after killing Mrs Leyshon, the teenager ripped or cut off most of her clothing and put her body on a different armchair with her naked legs propped up on a stool. He then made several deep gashes along her legs, to drain blood into a small saucepan he had taken from the kitchen."
Mrs Leyshon...who was brutally murdered by a "vampire"