This is the chilling moment a monster was caught confessing "I've murdered four people" on camera.
Today Damien Bendall, 32, was handed a whole life order after he admitted to killing his 35-year-old girlfriend Terri Harris, her daughter Lacey, 11, her son John Paul Bennett, 13, and Lacey's friend Connie Gent, also 11.
Bendall had admitted to the killings at the sleepover in Killamarsh, Derbyshire on September 19 last year.
He also pleaded guilty to raping Lacey in the "brutal, vicious and cruel attacks", in which he smashed in the victims' skulls using a claw hammer, said prosecutor Louis Mably.
New footage released today by Derbyshire Police shows the moment Bendall said he had carried out the brutal slayings.
In the footage, police walk up to him outside the property and see he is bleeding. Bendall said he stabbed himself. When police asked him if he knew what was going to happen he had a chilling response.
He said: "I know what is going to happen. I'm going to go to prison again."
The police officer responds: "Have you done something to anyone else?"
Bendall replies "yeah" before the cop asks: "What have you done."
Bendall then says: "I've murdered four people."
Bendall also commented to police that he'd left a house "covered in claret" as he confessed to wiping out a family in a horrific murder.
He had told officers he'd taken the lives of five people in the slaughter, revealing his murdered partner Terri had been pregnant.
Following his arrest, he revealed to police he'd used a hammer to murder his family, claiming he did not realise the severity of his actions - until it was too late.
In a shocking police interview following his arrest, Bendall told officers at Ripley police station: “The whole house is covered in claret.
“I used the hammer. I didn’t realise what I did until I walked into my room and saw my missus and my daughter.”
He then eerily added: “Bet you don’t usually get four murders in Killamarsh do you – well, five (murders), because my missus was having a baby.”
At Derby Crown Court on December 21, Bennett admitted raping Lacey in the "brutal, vicious and cruel attacks on a defenceless woman and three children", prosecutor Louis Mably KC told the court.
Mr Mably went on to tell the court how Bendall's horrific attack unfolded at the Harris' family home in September last year.
On the night that Lacey's friend had been staying over for a sleepover, the prosecutor said Bendall hit the victims over the head and on the upper body using a claw hammer, as he attacked each victim in a different room, going "around the house looking for them, attacking them each in turn, in order to kill them".
The prosecutor added: "The defendant brutally and viciously murdered his then partner, Terri Harris, who is aged 35 - and was in the early stages of pregnancy.
"He also murdered Terri's two children, by a previous partner, her 13-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter Lacey, and he murdered Connie Gent, also aged 11.
"She was a friend of Lacey's who just happened that evening to be staying at Lacey's house for a sleepover."
Mr Mably went on to say that horrific attacks "were of such ferocity" that the victims' "skulls were smashed in" by the force.
The Crown's KC detailed the "truly hideous and dreadful" aspects of the crime, including the fact Harris was murdered while carrying Bendall's unborn child - a fact revealed by a post-mortem paternity test.
What also emerged was that having brutally killed Ms Harris and the children, Bendall "took John's Xbox (games console), ordered a taxi, went to Sheffield", where he then exchanged the console "for drugs", Mr Malby said.
Bendall would later tell police he had consumed "three to four bags of cocaine and then blacked out".
Sentencing Bendall for four counts of murder and one of rape, High Court judge Mr Justice Sweeney said family impact statements attested in moving terms to each victim who had been "so horrifically taken away" and their families' "utter devastation."
The judge told him: "On your behalf Bendall, it is accepted that the seriousness of your offences is so exceptionally high the court must make a whole-life order. I agree.
"You are now aged 32 and have a significant background of violent offending, including robbery. As the prosecution have said, you carried out brutal, vicious and cruel attacks on a defenceless woman and three young children."
Bendall did not look up when he was sentenced nor when he was led away by two dock officers.
