Teenage Girl Strangles Acholic Mother To Death

 A teenager has been detained for strangling her
alcoholic mother after a row at their Merseyside
home.
Clancy Durkin, 55, was found dead at Guildford
Road, Southport in January.

Rebecca Durkin, 19, was cleared of murder by a
jury at Liverpool Crown Court, but she admitted
manslaughter.
Sentencing her to four years and eight months
at a youth offenders’ institution, Judge Clement
Goldstone QC said she had suffered “long-term
cruelty” at the hands of her mother.
“You did your best for each other, but you
suffered long-term cruelty at her hands.
“Her addiction to alcohol clouded her
judgement,” Judge Goldstone, the Recorder of
Liverpool, told her.
“You’d had enough and that is something you
will have to live with for the rest of your life.”
‘Lost control’

During her trial, Rebecca Durkin said she had
not intended to kill her mother but she lost
control.
Clancy Durkin was an alcoholic, the CPS said
The Crown Prosecution (CPS) said Clancy had a
“troubled relationship” with her daughter.
The two women argued frequently and Clancy
told relatives she thought Rebecca was going to
kill her, the CPS said.
It said her mother had called staff at Southport
College, where her daughter was a student,
claiming Rebecca had tried to smother her.
Rebecca confided in friends she had tried to kill
her mother and had attempted suicide because
of the problems she was having with her
mother, the CPS said.
Claire Lindley, from the CPS, said: “This is a
tragic case where alcohol has no doubt played a
part in the relationship Rebecca had with her
mother.
“Rebecca Durkin had been receiving counselling
to help her with the relationship, but in January
this year she took her mother’s life and she
must now come to terms with the consequences
of that.”