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MURDER.. THEN A PINT; Boys' killer went off to the pub forlager and dominoes; DEATH OF ROBBIE and PAUL.

Double murderer Steven Heaney coolly played pub dominoes while drinking a pint hours afterslaughtering two schoolboy pals on a fishing trip.

And when the bodies of 13-year-old Paul Barker and 12-year-old Robbie Gee were found, the evilfiend even suggested forming a vigilante vigilante n. someone who takes the law into his/her ownhands by trying and/or punishing another person without any legal authority. In the 1800s groups ofvigilantes dispensed "frontier justice" by holding trials of accused horse-thieves, rustlers andshooters, and  group to catch the killer.

He told fellow drinkers in a local pub: "Let's kill the bastard."

Yesterday, 37-year-old Heaney was jailed for life at Liverpool Crown Court after pleading guilty tothe murders that shocked the nation last summer.

Judge Mr Justice Ognall told him: "You put a brutal end to two innocent young lives. The medicalreports indicate that you are fully responsible for what you did."

Heaney - smart in a charcoal-grey suit and blue check shirt - left the dock without a word, shakingand stumbling.

Factory worker Heaney, a lonely misfit mis·fit Â

n.

1. Something of the wrong size or shape for its purpose.

2. One who is unable to adjust to one's environment or circumstances or is considered to bedisturbingly different from others. Â who lived with his parents, was a compulsive liar with a fantasyworld.

The balding bachelor had a fierce temper and a passion for knives.

In the days before the murders he made several chilling attempts to befriend be·friend Â

tr.v. be·friend·ed, be·friend·ing, be·friends

To behave as a friend to.

befriend

Verb

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to become a friend to

Verb 1. Â other youngsters - including a 12-year-old girl.

Heaney put his hand on the girl's arm http://fishing.net.my/ and suggested she take off her shirtbecause the weather was so hot.

But she broke away and ran off.

Then, on a sweltering swel·ter·ing Â

adj.

1. Oppressively hot and humid; sultry.

2. Suffering from oppressive heat.

swel  Saturday afternoon last July, life-long pals Paul and Robbie cycled on their mountain bikes toa fishing pond near their homes at Eastham, Wirral, Merseyside - into the clutches of the killer.

Heaney was already fishing with four other teenagers at a pond known as The Carpies.

There wasn't enough room for all of them, so he sent the new arrivals to Brookhurst Ponds acrossthe field and followed 30 minutes later.

Only Heaney knows exactly what happened next.

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He has claimed he snapped when one of the lads called him "Baldy baldy, baldy-faced

said of cattle to mean a white face and usually indicating a Hereford influence in the animal'sbreeding. ".

Police dismiss his story as a pack of lies.

Neither boy was molested mo·lest Â

tr.v. mo·lest·ed, mo·lest·ing, mo·lests

1. To disturb, interfere with, or annoy.

2. To subject to unwanted or improper sexual activity. , but detectives believe Heaney's motive formurder was sexual.

Paul was the first to die, battered with a mallet mallet,

n a hammering instrument.

mallet, hard,

n a small hammer with a leather-, rubber-, fiber-, or metal-faced head; used to supply force or tosupplement hand force for the compaction of foil or amalgam and to seat cast , strangledstran·gle Â

v. stran·gled, stran·gling, stran·gles

v.tr.

1.

a. To kill by squeezing the throat so as to choke or suffocate; throttle.

b. Â with fishing wire, then stabbed nine times through his T-shirt.

He put up a fierce fight as Heaney grabbed him from behind and wound the wire around his neck.The mallet blows smashed his skull.

Heaney then strangled Robbie with his bare hands and stabbed him 10 times in the chest besideanother pond 200 yards away.

Both boys were found on their backs with their tracksuit track·suit Â

n.

A loose-fitting jacket and pants worn by athletes and exercisers usually before and after workouts.

tracksuit

Noun

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a warm loose-fitting suit worn by athletes etc., esp. Â trousers pulled down and their baseball capslaid neatly over their faces.

Heaney was to claim he yanked down their trousers to stop them running away - and could notexplain why he killed them.

A huge police search was launched when the boys had not returned home by 6.30pm.

Meanwhile, Heaney had been calmly continuing his normal routine. The boys died between 2pm and2.30. At 2.45 the killer drove in his white Skoda car to his local, the Merebrook, at Eastham.

He had a couple of pints of lager and returned to the pub around 4pm when he joined in a game ofdominoes with a local couple.

They chatted about favourite holiday spots.

Despite the heatwave heatwave n -> ola de calor

heatwave n -> vague f de chaleur

heatwave n -> ondata di caldo , Heaney wore a sports jacket.

He then went back to the ponds for his fishing net before going home to watch television and havehis tea.

At 7pm, the killer left his parents' semi-detached home in a pleasant tree-lined road at Eastham anddrove to Dillon's newsagents to buy a lottery ticket. By then Heaney had decided to do some washingto remove the blood from his clothing.

He dumped the murder weapons - a four-inch fishing knife, wire and mallet - on wasteland oppositethe railway station at Spital spit·al Â

n. Archaic

A hospital, especially one for patients with contagious diseases.

[Middle English spitel, short for hospital; see hospital.] .

Then he went home and watched the detective series Columbo on TV with his unsuspecting parents.

Next day, a police helicopter swooped over the Heaney home as it searched for the missingyoungsters.

The killer told his 75-year-old dad Bill and mum Marie, 72, that there must have been an armedrobbery.

When the bodies were found on the Sunday, he went back to the pub and joined in the chorus ofrage against the knife maniac ma·ni·ac

n.

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An insane person.

maniac

one affected with mania. .

Detectives later called at a house opposite Heaney's. Brazenly, he ambled across the road andoffered his help.

The following day his sickening charade was rumbled - and police arrested him.

Heaney had a clean police record, but he had quickly become a prime suspect.

Detective Chief Inspector This article or section deals primarily with the United Kingdom and doesnot represent a worldwide view of the subject.

Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Â George Denton said: "Call itpolice intuition, but the interviewing officers had a very strong feeling he wasn't telling the truth."

In court yesterday, Heaney's barrister said the killer was full of "remorse and contritioncon·tri·tion Â

n.

Sincere remorse for wrongdoing; repentance. Barbecues shouldn�t become utilized

on boats - hot charcoal provides off

dangerous levels of CO and also

blown embers could set your current boat

alight.

� Preserve cabin ventilation obvious to

prevent any develop -up involving toxic CO.

� Attempt to keep fabrics far from

cooking hobs in order to avoid these

from catching fire.

� Verify the particular flues of coal and wood

burning stoves pertaining to signs of leaks

and blockages.

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� Just make use associated with the gasoline advised

by the actual heater manufacturer.

Other sorts could burn as well hot.

� Dispose of embers carefully.

If they�re nonetheless heat they can

cause the fire or perhaps build-up of CO.

� Ensure all hobs get shut-off

or isolation valvesSee Synonyms at penitence.

Noun 1. contrition - sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation

contriteness, attrition ".

Heaney stood with head bowed as the judge hinted he might never be freed.

Police said last night that months of probing Heaney's twisted mind has failed to solve the mystery ofwhy he became a killer.

They also want to talk to him about an assault on two boys in nearby Lytham St Anne's six years ago.

The youngsters, aged 10 and 11, were almost strangled and left for dead in a pond where they hadbeen fishing.

Officers said it was a miracle they survived.

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Mr Denton said: "They are going to be as empty and as confused as before.

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