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   Sarah Barrass was given a life sentence for killing her two   
   teenage sons along with her half-brother Brandon Machin - now a   
   leading criminologist says the twisted pair won't survive for   
   long behind bars   
      
   A twisted mum who gave birth to six children with her half-   
   brother before killing her two sons, won't survive for long   
   behind bars – according to a leading criminologist.   
      
   Sarah Barrass, 35, and Brandon Machin, 39, from Sheffield, were   
   both sentenced to 35-years in jail last week after murdering   
   their two teenage sons and plotting to kill their four other   
   children on May 24.   
      
   Sheffield Crown Court heard the sick pair gave their children a   
   cocktail of drugs and when the mixture failed to kill them,   
   strangled sons Tristan, 13, and Blake, 14, before placing   
   plastic bags over their heads.   
      
   They also tried to drown a third child in the bath.   
      
   Following the murders and the attempted murder of the younger   
   child who was placed in a bath, the mother took the surviving   
   children, who are all under the age of 13, to the bedroom and   
   phoned the police.   
      
   Following the evil pair's life-term convictions, criminologist   
   Professor Elizabeth Yardley has told the MirrorOnline she doubts   
   the pair, who were sentenced on Tuesday will survive life behind   
   bars.   
      
   Barrass and Machin, both of Sheffield, were sentenced to life in   
   prison with minimum terms of 35 years on Tuesday.   
      
   Prof Yardley, a criminologist at Birmingham City University,   
   says the murderers won't survive their life sentences because   
   there is a high-risk other inmates will turn on them.   
      
   She said: "What we’ll see happen over the next few months and   
   years is these two will learn the kinds of behaviours they need   
   to display to appear remorseful.   
      
   "They will talk to other offenders in prison, they will find out   
   the things a parole board wants to hear.   
      
   "If you were to talk to them in everyday language about it in   
   terms of the impact of their actions and the long term   
   implications they wouldn’t be able to tell you about them   
   because they don’t genuinely feel remorse.   
      
   "They were worried about the implications for themselves. They   
   didn’t care about their children."   
      
   She added: "In a lot of cases of child homicide the parents   
   don’t last very long in prison.   
      
   "They are a very high risk of suicide and they are at a very   
   high risk of attack.   
      
   "I doubt very much they will live to see the end of their   
   sentences."   
      
   It will be a difficult task for Barrass to pretend to be   
   remorseful, believes Prof Yardley, who believes she has a   
   narcissistic personality disorder.   
      
   Prior to the murders the court also heard told how the mother-of-   
   six was heard repeatedly making remarks such as "I gave you   
   life, I can take it away" to the children.   
      
   "She would have seen her children not as individuals with rights   
   and autonomy but as things to be controlled.   
      
   "They were her possessions. She owned them.   
      
   "She was quoted as saying (to the children), 'I gave you life, I   
   can take it away', so she doesn’t see her children as   
   individuals to be loved and nurtured."   
      
   Sheffield Crown Court heard they feared the children would be   
   taken into care if their dark secret was discovered. They   
   decided the children would be "better off dead".   
      
   However, after reviewing the case, Prof Yardley said she doesn't   
   believe claims that Barrass and Machin plotted the murders   
   because they feared the children would end up in care.   
      
   She explained: "I think that is nonsense.   
      
   "That has been the case for years, a risk of this (secret sexual   
   relationship) coming out ever since the first children were   
   born, so why now? Why choose to kill them at this point?   
      
   "I think there's more to it.   
      
   "I’m totally speculating here, but if you look at the order of   
   events they have killed the eldest children first, and the   
   eldest children represent the biggest threat and the biggest   
   risk if they (Barrass and Machin) were going to disclose some   
   information that would compromise the parents’ control of the   
   children.   
      
   "That’s what this all boils down to is control.   
      
   "I’m really sceptical of the narrative that has emerged around   
   this case."   
      
      
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