Police bodycam footage captured the moment Damien Bendall told officers he had killed his pregnant partner and three children.
The 32-year-old, who has been sentenced to life in prison, can be seen standing outside his home speaking to police and confessing to his crimes.
Bendall raped and murdered 11-year-old Lacey Bennett, then killed her brother John Paul Bennett, 13, their mother and his partner Terri Harris, 35, and Lacey’s 11-year-old friend Connie Gent in Killamarsh, Derbyshire in September 2021.
Video showed him telling officers: “I’m going back to prison again, I’ve murdered four people.”
In the footage Bendall was seen standing outside the house where he committed the murder, wearing a buttoned up coat and telling officers he had no weapons on him.
The murderer then calmly tells officers he stabbed himself in the chest and stomach with a breadknife.
After the officers take him around to the side of the house and ask him if he knows what’s going to happen, he responds by saying: “I know what’s going to happen, I’m going to go to prison again, obviously.”
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When the officer asks why, he bluntly responds: “I’ve murdered four people.”
He was then handcuffed by police and officers prepared to search the property where they would discover the bodies of Lacey, Connie, John and Terri.
Before they entered, Bendall could be seen sitting on the ground outside the house, wearing a Chelsea football top.
After the search, officers can be heard reading Bendall his rights before leading him away to be put in the back of a police van and taken to the station.
Bendall pleaded guilty to the rape and four murders at Derby Crown Court on Wednesday.
The judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, said the sexual offence was committed “in the grossest breach of trust” as the 11-year-old’s life ebbed away.
He said “just punishment” required that Bendall be kept in prison for the rest of his life in relation to each count of murder, and he also imposed another whole-life order for the rape.
Lacey and John Paul were Ms Harris’s children from a previous relationship, and Connie had been at the house in Killamarsh, near Sheffield, for a sleepover.
Connie was only due to stay for one night, but managed to get permission from her mother, fatefully extending her stay by another night – coinciding with the attacks, the court heard.
Bendall is believed to have gone around the family home looking for his victims individually, and then attacking them in different rooms in order to kill them, the court was told.
