Jailed Redditch mum Amanda Allden tells the Sunday Mercury - ''I'm no killer''

Feb 13 2011 by Ben Goldby, Sunday Mercury

CONVICTED murderer Amanda Allden revealed the chilling moment her boyfriend battered a teenager to death but then insisted: ‘‘I’m not a killer.’’

The mum-of-two and drug dealer Scott Hancox are serving life sentences for the brutal murder of Nathan Lyons, 17, in Redditch, Worcestershire.

Now in an emotional letter to the Sunday Mercury from prison, Allden has told how she screamed at her deranged lover to stop the frenzied wooden club attack – and feared that she would be next.

The couple had blamed each other for the brutal killing, but were both convicted under an archaic Joint Enterprise law.

Justice campaigners have now taken up the case of the Bromsgrove mum and are demanding a change in the law.

Allden, 31, wrote: ‘‘I’m a mother of two beautiful children. Yet because I got involved with the wrong man and was in the wrong place at the wrong time, I have seen 15 years of my life taken away.’’

Nathan was murdered in May 2008 while acting as a ‘minder’ for Birmingham’s feared Burger Bar gang, to guarantee the sale of heroin and crack at Hancox’ flat.

But he was viciously attacked at the flat and his battered body was dumped in a wheelie bin.

It was later discovered at a recycling depot in London, but was so unrecognisable that cops had to use fingerprint records to identify the teenager.