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Tim Morss and Brett Tyler

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Daniel Handley (born April 27, 1985, died October 7, 1994) was an English murder victim.

Murder

Handley was fixing a chain on his bicycle in Beckton, London, on October 7 1994, when he was approached by two men in a Peugeot 405.

Timothy Morss and Brett Tyler planned their abduction and murder of a "blonde boy" whilst they were serving sentences together for sexual assaults on young children. As soon as they were released, they targeted nine-year-old Daniel Handley.

The two men drove around night after night, searching for their victim – always within the parameters set by Morss – a blonde haired, blue eyed boy aged between 8 and 12. On the night of 7th October 1994, they were driving around, high on a combination of cannabis and alcohol, when they ‘got lucky’. They spotted Daniel Handley, a blonde haired, blue eyed 9 year old. Daniel was trying to fix the chain on his bike in Beckton, east London, when Morss and Tyler spotted him. They waited until they were sure the child was alone, then pretended to be lost and asked him for directions. Tyler showed him a map, and said he had a better one in the back of the car, indicating a map carefully placed in the middle of the back seat. As Daniel leant over the map to try to help them, Morss and Tyler pulled him into the car. Tyler later spoke of his feeling of exhilaration as they kidnapped the child. They drove him back to their flat, where they took more drugs and drank more vodka, telling Daniel to drink some. Daniel replied that he had had some before, and that he had ‘got blamed’ for it. They then ordered the child to strip. Daniel obeyed, whilst the gloating kidnappers videoed him. They then videoed one another forcing Daniel into oral sex, then raping the child, only finally allowing him to get dressed. They took Daniel back to the car, and put him in the back, telling him that they were going to take him home.

Morss stopped the car in a layby in Hungerford. They got into the back with Daniel, both intent on child murder. They made the boy get undressed again, before raping him a second time. Morss then picked up a length of rope, and said to Tyler ‘You know we’ve got to do this?’ Tyler replied ‘Yes.’ Daniel asked if they were going to kill him. It was obvious that they were, but one of them said ‘No’. Morss tied a knot in the rope, and put it around Daniel’s neck. Morss started to strangle the child, then gave up. He said he could not manage it alone, and told Tyler to take an end of the rope and pull. Tyler said he couldn’t, but Morss said he had to. The remorseless killers each took an end, and pulled on the rope. Morss was fulfilling his fantasy of looking into the child’s pleading eyes whilst he murdered him. They carried on strangling the helpless child until the desperate pleading and struggling stopped, and they were sure the boy was dead. They then buried him in a shallow grave.

On May 17, 1996, two homosexual partners, Timothy Morss, aged 33 and Brett Tyler, aged 30, were convicted of murdering Daniel Handley. The trial judge and the Old Bailey branded them as "vultures" and sentenced them to life imprisonment with a recommendation that they should never be released. Six years later, the pair were given a 50-year minimum term by the Home Secretary David Blunkett.

After the trial, it was revealed that Daniel's killers had met in Wormwood Scrubs Prison during the early 1990s, while they were serving prison sentences for child sex offences. One of the men already owned a house near Bristol, a minicab firm and a florist's shop, assets which had been obtained with his former homosexual partner.

They fled to the Philippines after Daniel's death, but by the time they returned to Britain, Daniel's body had been found, and they were quickly arrested on suspicion of murder.

One of the killers later recalled "the feeling of sexual excitement when I grabbed his body and pushed him into the car, the fear of being caught and the excitement that we might get away with it. It was like a fantasy."