who is mary bell
For other people named Mary Bell, see Mary Bell (disambiguation). Mary Flora Bell (born 26 May 1957) is an English woman who, in 1968, as a child, strangled to death two little boys in Scotswood, an inner-city suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne. She was convicted in December 1968, at the age of 11, of the manslaughter of the two boys, Martin Brown (aged 4) and Brian Howe (aged 3).