15-year-old British boy gets life for murdering mother

A 15-year-old British boy who killed his mother with a hammer after being inspired by a television soap opera was on Monday handed a life sentence.

Judge Julian Fox told Daniel Bartlam, who was only 14 years old at the time of the incident, that he must serve a minimum of 16 years, during the hearing at Nottingham Crown Court, central England.

The court had earlier heard that Bartlam hit his mother Jacqueline seven times with a hammer at their home in Nottingham before setting the house alight.

The court was also told that Bartlam had been inspired to commit the act by a storyline in popular long-running soap Coronation Street, in which one of the characters had killed a woman with a hammer.         Read Here