Mother's anguish at the 'monster' she let stay at her house who stabbed her four-year-old boy to death as he slept

The mother of a four-year-old boy savagely murdered by a friend who was allowed to sleep on her sofa has said she felt 'so much guilt' over letting the 'monster' stay with them. Sharon Smith and her partner Guy Earwaker had thought psychopath Anwar Daniel Rosser was a harmless neighbour and allowed him to stay at their house when he asked after turning up after a night out. In the early hours, the 33-year-old sneaked upstairs armed with four knives and stabbed Riley Turner to death. He then crept into another bedroom where the boy’s mother and her partner were sleeping and curled up to sleep on the floor. In a victim impact statement read in court Miss Smith said: ‘I wish I had told the monster no that night when he asked if he could sleep. He said people were outside his house and were going to beat him up and I believed him.

I didn’t want him to get beaten up, but all along he had a knife in his pocket, plotting to hurt one of us, or all of us. ‘I feel so much guilt that my poor son had to go through such horrific things because my kind heart didn’t want to let that monster get beaten up. Now my kind heart cost me my son’s life. ‘I don’t feel like ever being nice to people at all except my family. The guilt eats me away every day. What he’s done is unforgivable, he’s ruined our lives.' In the morning, following the attack, the mother-of-three, 26, was shocked to find Rosser curled up in a ball on the floor next to her, and ordered him to leave. Moments later her partner, Guy Earwaker, noticed Riley’s light on and went to check his room – only to find it covered in blood and the boy semi-naked and dead on the bed with his throat cut. Riley had been strangled, repeatedly stabbed and attacked in a sexual manner. Chillingly, Rosser had waited downstairs to hear the anguished screams. He escaped, but was arrested later by police.

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