The Misery Machine - The Case of the Barrass Family

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Starting point is 00:01:23 It is not for the faint of heart. This is the terrifying story of the Bearers family. Tristan and Blake Bears were brothers, 14 and 13 years old. and were two of six siblings. Blake was the oldest and Tristan was the second oldest. They shared an interest in cars and motorcycles. Blake enjoyed playing football, making friends, and cheering people up when they felt down.

Starting point is 00:01:48 He was said to have a big heart. He was diagnosed with ADHD and sometimes got into trouble with adults. Tristan had anxiety and was an occasional target for bullies. In spite of his hardships, he was kind and sweet to those he loved. When one of Tristan's friends was diagnosed with cancer, he dyed his hair a sunny yellow color to help fund their treatment. He would eventually be known for his colorful hair. With natural hair, you just look like every other person.

Starting point is 00:02:17 Why have you got a bright yellow mehika? He's a question I've never had to ask in all my years here, but today it's the one I'm asking of you. It turns out Tristan's new look is for charity. My friend is dying of bone cancer. I asked if I could die my hair yellow friend. The boys live with their mother. Sarah in Sheffield, England, and attended school at the Firth Park Academy. Their home was on

Starting point is 00:02:37 Greg House Road in the Shire Green suburb. It was a council-style home with an overgrown, unmaintained front garden. Their community was relatively small, so many of the locals knew of Tristan and Blake, even if they didn't know them by their name. Employees of local shops said the boys were always smiling, polite, and sweet. Sarah told everyone that her children's father was dead. It reported one of the younger children was convinced that their father died in World War II, despite it being 2019 at the time of our story. However, the father of Sarah's children was none other than her half-brother, Brandon Machen. For years, they had a secret relationship. The eyes of outsiders and the children, Uncle Brandon was just a supportive family member.

Starting point is 00:03:25 It's been noted that Brandon seemed like a doormat who would do anything, and I mean. anything that Sarah asked of him. Sarah was no stranger to British family and child services. It's been reported that she herself was a victim of family violence and childhood essay. Four of her six children had special needs, and Sarah wasn't always equipped to give them the aid that they needed. She reached out to social services for aid, but was constantly fearful her children would be taken away.

Starting point is 00:03:56 Social workers often checked in on the children, but they never reported, signs of mistreatment or neglect. Agents regarded Sarah as a good mother to her children. These agents did not suspect anything unusual about Sarah and Brandon or thought that the children were in any danger, even though Sarah's brother Martin called social services because he was afraid for his nephew's safety when they were young. Martin was uneasy about his sister and half-brother for as long as he could remember. He said, those two have been evil since birth.

Starting point is 00:04:28 They are both as bad as each other. They are both murdering, evil psychopaths. I witnessed Brandon's violence towards Blake years ago, and I knew something wasn't right. I visited them when Tristan was still in his pushed chair and Blake was only a toddler. He must have been three or four. We were out walking when Brandon grabbed Blake's arm really roughly and dragged him across the floor. It was enough to know something wasn't right. So I called social services and asked them to look into it.

Starting point is 00:04:57 In another instance, Martin said, I had concerns, so I reported them to social services. It was 2009 or 2010 that I made complaints. It was three phone calls. I told them about the incident. I was told they would look into it, but I didn't hear back from them. I feel like I was ignored. Martin also recalled growing up with Sarah and Brandon. Their mother had eight children in total with four different men.

Starting point is 00:05:22 They were in the British foster care system for a short period, but they were all eventually returned to their mother. But their mother was far from responsible. Martin said they were constantly guests in the home getting drunk, stoned, or both. There weren't any house rules or regulations, so the children often had to fend for themselves. Sarah and Martin were close when they were younger. Martin remembers his sister is shy but protective, but whatever relationship they had gradually died when their older half-brother Brandon came into the picture. He said, once Sarah and Brandon got close, she changed. She became them. Folks knew the colonel approved of his new

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Starting point is 00:07:26 taxes and fees extra. Seeful terms at mintmobile.com. As soon as he came, there was a bond. They would always be together and were thick as thieves. Brandon once beat someone up at school for no reason, just to impress Sarah. He also touched on Brandon's behavior towards other people. He said, Brandon would torment me. One day at the park, Brandon called me over, turned me upside down, and ram me headfirst into the floor.

Starting point is 00:07:51 He terrified me. He was violent and would punch people for no reason and get into fights. Sarah was a sidekick. They were always whispering together. When they were younger, Martin heard his other sister screaming. He found Sarah and Brandon trampling and stomping on small black and white mice.

Starting point is 00:08:11 They were laughing about it. Martin tried to get them to stop, but he wasn't strong enough to stop them. Sarah and Brandon left when their fun ran out. Martin and his other sister stayed behind where they cried over their dead mice. In another instance, Martin and Sarah were playing outside with some other kids.

Starting point is 00:08:30 A girl they knew climbed up a tree. Sarah, unprovoked, followed the girl and pushed her as hard as she could. The girl fell and hit the ground hard, injuring her arm in the process. Sarah again laughed. Martin had already clothed that his sister wasn't normal and that she was capable of extreme violence. He did his part in calling social services and expressing his concerns. Fortunately, his words fell on deaf ears.

Starting point is 00:08:57 In interviews, Martin does not spend much time mourning the sister he once had. Instead, he thinks more on the person she chose to become. A behaviour, the way she'd act like animals, for one, finding a bird's nest and she killed two birds just straight across with stones. And I was crying my eyes out and she wasn't even asked. The demise that she had that she just stamped on, wasn't normal behavior. I was in tears and she would just laugh. He's messed me up a little bit.

Starting point is 00:09:32 And I really, I feel numb at times as well. Like guilty. I mean, I should have spoke more, you know what I mean? Gone down and seen him more. Should have done something more. You know, I could have picked up on something. You know what I mean? So, yeah, I feel guilty and I feel like I've let him down as everyone else.

Starting point is 00:09:53 Sarah was reported as saying the phrase, I gave you life, I can take it away to her children by people visiting her home. However, Sarah wasn't exaggerating. She would make good on those words. Tristan and Blake both began exhibiting troubling behavior. Sarah claimed that her two oldest had addictions to adult content. Blake at one point got behind the wheel of his aunt's car without permission, was getting aggressive with his younger siblings.

Starting point is 00:10:22 2018, the household was assigned a social worker following some disturbing allegations against Blake. Details are vague, but it is reported that Blake was accused of some kind of inappropriate behavior towards another child. Blake would have been between 12 and 13 during this accusation. Social services sought out to nip this behavior in the bud. Blake worked closely with a social worker and he was responsive to getting the treatment he needed. Sarah was advised to have an open-door policy. She found this difficult to maintain in her small house. As social workers continued working with the family,

Starting point is 00:10:58 they may have detected something was wrong in the home. In May 21st, 2019, social workers had a meeting with the children without Sarah present. She knew about this meeting and was incredibly anxious. The following day, she learned that her family would be under closer observation by social services. There was questioned about the identity of the children's father and about potential essay within the home due to Blake's reported behavior. Sarah refused to answer these questions. She was described by social workers as defiant.

Starting point is 00:11:29 Then, on May 23, 2019, Sarah answered a phone call. The person on the other line has not been named. Cues Tristan of inappropriate behavior against another child. This individual said they would go to the police the very next day. Sarah may have been considering extreme measures against her children as early as the 2018 allegations. She had reached out to her friends over texts for comfort and to vent. And one message she said, I still feel like I failed Blake so this isn't helping.

Starting point is 00:12:02 I feel like I should lock me and my lot away so they can't hurt anyone else. I want to die daily to run away and hide from everyone. I thought of every possible solution to this mess. mass murder, putting them all in care, checking into the local nut house, I love my kids too much to kill them. I can't put them into care for the same reason. It's reported that in July of 2018, Sarah posted multiple images of grim reapers on her social media pages. She captioned one of the images with,

Starting point is 00:12:35 I'm not mean or cold-hearted, I'm just sick of being f***ed over. In another post, she quoted the Stephen King novel Under the Dome. Murder is like potato chips. You can't stop with just one. The combination of the new allegation, the looming presence of social workers, and the fear of being discovered for their disgusting relationship, led Sarah and Brandon to go the scorched earth nuclear roots, familicide. They had already made plans over the course of a week, so it's possible that the phone call tipped them over the edge. Sarah began to collect various medications from around the house in order to give them to her children. She had hoped that they would OD in their sleep, and Sarah would remove herself from this earth the very next morning. Brandon would then alert the police upon his false discovery of the family's death.

Starting point is 00:13:30 To Sarah and Brandon in their sick and twisted minds, death was a better, kinder fate than losing their children to suffer. social services. Sarah piled together various drugs from the home and forced her four older children to take them. The children protested taking the pills, but their mother forced them to swallow them. It's also reported she sent messages and made social media posts about an illness in her household. Medications made the children sick with OD symptoms. Sarah hoped that by the next morning her children would already be cold and dead. But the drug cocktail, thankfully, was not lethal. Brantically trying to move forward, Sarah cluttered her search history with causes of death, including drowning, strangulation, and suffocation. Five in the morning, she called Brin for help,

Starting point is 00:14:22 took a taxi to the home on Greghouse Road. Tragically, despite surviving the poisoning attempt, Sarah and Brandon together strangled Tristan and Blake. It's reported, Sarah used the belt from her bathrobe and Brandon used his bare hands. Tristan fought back at first and begged his mother to stop. Mum is killing Tristan, Blake yelled to his younger siblings before Brandon descended upon him. The boys fell unconscious. Sarah and Brandon tied trash bags over their heads to make sure they were dead. Brandon then helped himself to an energy drink afterwards while Sarah attempted to drown another one of her children in the bathtub.

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Starting point is 00:15:56 Officers survived the scene between 730 and 745 in the morning. They asked about the well-being and the whereabouts of the two older children. Sarah said Tristan and Blake were visiting someone else. But when one of the surviving children looked at the officers and gestured towards their neck with their hand across their throat silently saying, dead, Sarah saw this and said, Stop, don't say that. Officers found Tristan and Blake in their bunk beds. Trashbags were still over their heads.

Starting point is 00:16:27 The police arrived before their younger siblings could be fatal. harmed, but they still rushed all the children to the hospital. Sarah gave one of the officers a notebook. In her handwriting, the page she opened read Funeral Arrangements. Good afternoon. We're here on Greg House Road here in Sheffield. A tragic scene of events this morning at around 7.30. The emergency service has responded to a property on this street. As a result of that, the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Service attended here and a number of children were taken to hospital. Sadly, two children have since died and four children remain in hospital.

Starting point is 00:17:13 As you can appreciate, this is very early stages of our investigation. Our detectives are supporting the family. The family are aware of the circumstances and our inquiries will continue. to develop during the day. I think it's really important that I reassure the wider community that there is no wider risk. Two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in police custody. Can you tell me what you think caused those children's injuries? I think at this moment in time is too early to say. A post-mortem will take place. The investigation is of very early stages and detectives working closely with a number of different lines of inquiry. Our specialist family support

Starting point is 00:17:59 officers are with the family at this moment in time. Have your officers had to use any protective equipment or clothing to go into the house? As part of our forensic examination that would be routine, but in terms of that wider bit, no not at this moment in time. Do you believe a weapon was used? At this moment in time I'm not able to provide those further details. As you can appreciate, this is a very much a live investigation. And it's important that I reassure the community and also that speculation. I'm aware of

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Starting point is 00:19:17 medical examiners she tried to poison her children with medication, but Brandon confessed everything to the police. He said that he began strangling Blake because he got that feeling when you just want to strangle the life out of someone. Sarah and Brandon were arrested. The other four children were taken to the hospital. After they were deemed well enough, they were discharged that afternoon.

Starting point is 00:19:41 In accordance with the UK publishing laws, the other children's identities were not released as they were younger than 13 during the tragedy. The massive police presence outside the home drew the media's interest. They only knew that children had been harmed, and later, two children had died. First, the public speculated that there was a shooting within the home. The house was less than a mile from a school, the Hartley Brook Academy, so understandably, there were concerns for the young student safety.

Starting point is 00:20:09 But law enforcement assured the public the incident was not related to the Hartley Brook Academy. Aside from a traffic detour, the school operated as normal. only with the knowledge a medical aircraft had temporarily landed in their playground earlier that morning. Later in the day, the chief inspector gave an update to the community. We will remain in the area this afternoon and into the evening carrying out inquiries and providing reassurance. I appreciate the events of this morning have caused concern locally, but I'd like to reassure you that there is no wider risk of the community. We will be providing regular updates when we are able to.

Starting point is 00:20:47 Martin, Sarah's brother, and the two boys' uncle learned about his nephew's passing through a link on Facebook. He said the following. It felt like someone had taken a sledgehammer to my stomach. I instantly felt sick. I spoke to my mom and she said Sarah and Brandon had been arrested. The next day, she told me they had been charged. I was disgusted. There are no words for them.

Starting point is 00:21:10 Blake and Tristan were polite, kind-hearted lads. It's a tragic waste of life. Martin also criticized social services for their failure to act before it was too late, he said. Social services have been aware of our family since before Sarah had kids. They don't seem to have done the job they could have done or should have done. That's what I'm struggling to understand. The main people to blame are Sarah and Brandon. Social services could have prevented it, could have stopped it.

Starting point is 00:21:36 This will haunt us forever. In the wake of the sentencing, the police held the following press conference. Ladies and gentlemen, today the judicial process has taken its course and the judge has made his decision on the outcomes for those that were responsible for the events on the 24th of May this year, a day that we remembered in memory of many people for all the wrong reasons. I'm not here nor would you expect me to do so to comment on those sentences, but I would like to say a few words.

Starting point is 00:22:11 I'd firstly like to thank all those that helped the investigation, officers over these difficult last few months. I know this hasn't been easy for family members and loved ones but you have been the hearts and minds of all the South Yorkshire Police family. Incidents like this are fortunately very rare. Sheffield is a place where we look after each other, we care for each other and the community is at our heart. We continue to work with partners to ensure any of the young people affected by this incident will be given specialist support and provided the right direction as they move forward with their lives.

Starting point is 00:22:54 On a final note, I would like to thank the press for their support in the reporting of this matter in some kind of difficult circumstances. Your support and understanding has been appreciated by the family and all. Thank you. My name is Evan Tolverton. I work for the Crown Prosecution Service. This was an appalling crime in which two young lives were lost, and a family was torn apart, meaning the community in shock.

Starting point is 00:23:25 Two of the surviving children witnessed their older siblings being attacked, and the trauma which all the children have experienced and will continue to experience as unimaginable. This is now paramount surviving children allowed to rebuild their lives in peace. The local community raised 3,000 British pounds for Tristan and Blake's funeral service, but funeral director Michael Fogg said he would pay out of his own pocket for the boy's burials. The money was split four ways and put into bank accounts for the surviving children. The two boys' love for cars and motorcycles inspired 300 local bikers to take part in the funeral procession. There were also two Lamborghinis.

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Starting point is 00:24:34 Savings of up to $1 per gallon redeemable with $20 rewards dollars in your loyalty account at participating locations, terms and conditions apply. A white wooden bench outside Firth Park Academy was decorated with flowers, ribbons, and a plush animal toy in honor of Tristan and Blake. The school also provided therapeutic services to their students in the following months of the tragedy. The families within the community were deeply affected by the murders. Reporters with the Huffington Post interviewed some of the residents in Sheffield.

Starting point is 00:25:36 Those who knew the family personally were deep in mourning. 31-year-old mother, Sam Parker, said her daughter asked a question that no child should ever even think to ask. Mommy, you won't kill or hurt me, will you? She said, it is sick that parents could do that to their own kids. It hits children particularly hard and it makes them question everything. Even as an adult, it makes you question humanity and what people are capable of. Makes you want to keep your own children close to you and safe

Starting point is 00:26:06 and you realize you don't know what is going on behind closed doors. Members of the community that were familiar with Brandon said they thought he was friendly and never had the impression he could do something so heinous. The general feelings among everyone was a mixture of shock, anger, and mourning. Another resident said that social services were investigating Sarah's relationship with Brandon, and that sent Sarah past her tipping point. Though the official statement from social services would say they didn't suspect a thing, psychologist Amanda Gummer gave advice for families in the process of grieving such an event.

Starting point is 00:26:40 She said not to brush off your children's fears, but to also not tell them sugar-coded lies. Bad things happen in the world, but you will do your job as a parent to keep them as safe from danger as you can. Moreover, talking through tough emotions and seeking help are key ways to heal from any traumatic event, she explained.

Starting point is 00:27:00 If you break your leg and don't treat it, it won't heal and you will always limp. In the same way, if you experience an emotional trauma, the sooner it is dealt with, the less long-term the impact. Sarah and Brandon pled guilty to conspiracy, murder, and attempted murder. Sarah cried when she was told of the possible life sentence she could face. Prosecutor Kamameli told the court that one of the surviving older children expressed fears

Starting point is 00:27:27 that they would become a violent criminal when they grew up because their mother and father were murderers. They said they missed their brothers. Of the accused, prosecutor Meli told the courts, although clearly the defendants were motivated to prevent the loss of their children to the care of the local authority, this was combined with their fear of the authorities becoming aware of their unnatural relationship. The younger children, all under three years old, never called out for their mother or asked to see her. During and after the trial, they were given the care and support they needed to heal from this traumatic experience. They asked that their mother be locked away in prison

Starting point is 00:28:05 for 300 years. The child who was nearly drowned was reported to have developed a fear of baths. Agents and practitioners testified in court that they had no reason to believe anything was amiss within the home, or that the relationship between Sarah and Brandon was anything but familial. In his defense of her, lawyer Brian Cox discussed Sarah's troubled upbringing and the damage it caused her, he said. The defendant was desperate to prevent her children being taken into care. She couldn't cope with the prospect of them being removed. For he read his judgment, Justice James Goss said, both the children were. children who survived were clearly aware of some of the terrifying events surrounding the deaths

Starting point is 00:28:46 of their brothers and your attempt to drown one of them. The initial effect on them, as described by them, was frightening. Surprisingly, they are extremely upset and anxious. The statement from their social worker on their behalf describes their inevitable confusion, the effect of the loss of their brothers upon them, and the incredible emotional hardship of these events on the older children and of being separated. Inevitably, they will require a significant amount of support. The long-term consequences for them and the younger children as they grow older and become aware of what happened cannot be known.

Starting point is 00:29:20 It's likely to be significant. Before this point, the press wasn't allowed to report on the incestuous relationship between Sarah and Brandon. After the sentencing, Justice Goss gave the press permission to report this fact once it was proven within the court. Justice Jeremy Richardson, who presided over the sentencing, told the defendants before giving his verdict. No words of mine can ever fully reflect the enormity of what you have both done. The crimes you have committed, quite frankly, speak for themselves.

Starting point is 00:29:51 The murder of two children. The attempted murder of four children and the overarching conspiracy to murder those children. I repeat, those crimes speak for themselves. I have little doubt that each of you will in due course be sentenced to several terms of life in prison. Sarah and Brandon were sentenced to 35 years to life in prison. One of Tristan and Blake's friends, Matthew Saunders, gave a statement outside the courthouse after the sentencing, and said, Blake and Tristan were two beautiful, confident, and outgoing boys who both had a bright future ahead of them. They had so many friends, and they lit up any room they were in, especially Tristan, who loved to dye his hair bright colors.

Starting point is 00:30:34 Daily life will never be the same again now. The boys have left behind younger siblings whose lives have been turned upside down. They adored their older brothers and they looked up to them. The boys have also left behind close family friends and younger children who looked up to them and who saw them on a regular basis. And this tragedy hasn't just affected those close to them

Starting point is 00:31:01 but the whole community too. A piece of all our hearts died on the 24th of May 2019, which we will never get back. Blake and Tristan leave a huge empty void in our lives, and we did not get the chance to say goodbye. We are relieved. Justice has been served, but it should never have come to this. We would like to thank the emergency services who attended and did everything they possibly could to save Blake and Tristan. We cannot thank them enough. We would like to thank the family liaison officer DC Little

Starting point is 00:31:42 for all her help and support over the last six months and for making it that bit easier when we were struggling. We cannot put into words the pain and emptiness we feel. But we find some comfort in knowing Blake and Tristan will always be remembered and how loved both boys were. Thank you. Following Sarah and Brandon's trials, a serious case reviewer, SRC, was conducted on Tristan and Blake's

Starting point is 00:32:14 deaths. In Britain, SRCs are always conducted following the death of a child due to mistreatment. The report found that the agents and practitioners from social services saw Sarah as competent, caring, and capable, which conflicts with the measures taken in 2019 to deduce mistreatment in the home. Officially, social services could not have predicted this tragedy, but there were internal failings that undoubtedly endangered the children. The Shire Green House was abandoned for some time

Starting point is 00:32:46 and stood as a reminder for everyone of the tragedy within those walls. Though various people left flowers and balloons along the fence and memory of Tristan and Blake, the neighboring families called for the property to be demolished. And it finally was in February of 2021 by the new. owners, a not-for-profit company called sanctuary housing. Their spokesperson said on the matter, the decision has been taken as we believe it is the right option to help the local community move forward and because it will allow us to create a suitable memorial to the events that occurred. An open space will be created when the property is removed, and the space will include a memorial

Starting point is 00:33:28 tree to provide a subtle reminder of the tragic events that occurred at the address. The surviving children had their names changed. They have not spoken out since, so we can only hope that they are safe and cared for.

The Misery Machine - The Case of the Barrass Family

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