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Mary Bell

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Mary Flora Bell (born 26 May 1957) is an English woman who, as a juvenile, killed two preschool-age boys in Scotswood, an inner suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1968. Bell committed her first killing when she was ten years old. In both instances, Bell informed her victim that he had a sore throat, which she would massage before proceeding to strangle him.Bell was convicted of manslaughter in relation to both killings in December 1968, in a trial held at Newcastle Assizes when she was 11 years old, and in which her actions were judged to have been committed under diminished responsibility. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Bell has received more than 5,225,542 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mary Bell is the 154th most popular extremist (down from 103rd in 2019), the 2,095th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,660th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Extremist.

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  • 52.34

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  • 22

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  • 4.25

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  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Mary Bell ranks 154 out of 209Before her are Anatoly Onoprienko, Émile Henry, Matteo Messina Denaro, Stephen Paddock, Robert Ford, and Kōzō Okamoto. After her are Tsutomu Miyazaki, Yoo Young-chul, John Wesley Hardin, Guy Burgess, Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, and Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Mary Bell ranks 96Before her are Lucien Favre, Anna Vissi, Emmanuel Carrère, Patrick Battiston, Bernie Mac, and Klaus Augenthaler. After her are Cynthia Rothrock, Stefan Bellof, Nellie Kim, Seve Ballesteros, Stephen Dillane, and Jaco Van Dormael.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Bell ranks 2,095 out of 7,765Before her are John Taverner (1490), Francis Darwin (1848), Ian Dury (1942), Barbara West (1911), Kit Harington (1986), and James Dyson (1947). After her are Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (1783), Joseph Lancaster (1778), John Thaw (1942), Anthony Jenkinson (1529), Thomas Beecham (1879), and Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (1886).

Among EXTREMISTS In United Kingdom

Among extremists born in United Kingdom, Mary Bell ranks 8Before her are Sawney Bean (1600), Harold Shipman (1946), Dennis Nilsen (1945), Peter Sutcliffe (1946), Mary Ann Cotton (1832), and John Adams (1767). After her are Guy Burgess (1911), Fred West (1941), John Haigh (1909), John Christie (1899), John Bodkin Adams (1899), and Jonathan Wild (1683).