Prostitute murders her two daughters

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A prostitute who murdered her two young children told her own mother that her youngest daughter 'will be next' after she suffocated the first girl.

Louise Porton, 23, of Rugby, Warwickshire, killed three-year-old Lexi Draper in January 2018.

Eighteen days later she strangled her youngest Scarlett Vaughan as the girls had 'got in the way' of her life as a sex worker. 

Porton was jailed for life with a minimum term of 32 years yesterday. 

Her own mother Sharon has branded Porton a 'monster' and revealed she was 'planning' to kill her youngest child, reports the Sun. 

Sharon said: 'After Lexi died Louise said Scarlett will be next. It was threatening. She was already planning what she would do.'

Earlier this week Porton's mother Sharon condemned her daughter, who was heard 'laughing' at a funeral parlour two days before Scarlett's death, for being a 'monster'.

Devastated grandmother Sharon said she would never forgive 'evil' daughter Porton and also hit out at social services for missing 'clear warning signs'. 

Sharon said: 'Something snapped in her head. She became a monster, my wonderful little girl changed.

She’s not the happy loving girl I brought up. I no longer consider her my daughter.'

Sharon also blasted social services who failed to take up warnings from 'mulitple people', questioning why there has yet to be an inquiry into the failings. 

Text messages sent by the mother also revealed that on February 1 2018, the same date that she killed Scarlett, she was trying to get money out of a man called Patrick so she could take the toddler to the hospital.

Messages shared by the Mirror show that at 21.22 Porton wrote: 'Any chance of putting 30 in my bank now for fuel to get my daughter scarlett to the hospital I will transfer it bak wednesday x'

She then sent seven more WhatsApp messages in just over a minute saying the little girl 'was not well' and saying that she was 'not loosin another baby.'

At 21.24 a man called Patrick responded to the flurry of worrying texts telling Porton to 'call the ambulance don't waste any time hun xx'   

It has also emerged that Porton attempted to sell her daughters' brightly coloured clothing in the months after she killed them.

Porton posted a picture of several bin bags on the 'Swap/sell/buy things in Rugby' Facebook page, selling them for £20 and saying: 'Can deliver'.

She said the bags contained clothes for girls aged 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-9 months and 9-12 months, reported the Mirror.

The mother-of-two also posted a tribute to her daughters on Facebook eight months after the two little girls were killed.

Alongside heart and a padlock emoji she wrote: 'Mommy's angels taken from me too soon. You will never be forgotten. RIP.'

And days after her arrest last year she made another post on the social networking site using the hashtags 'Smile' and 'f**kthehaters as she changed her profile picture.

Porton, a part-time model, who offered men she met online nude photographs or sex for cash, had tried to kill Lexi twice before succeeding in January 2018.

After the second attempt, she dialled 999 to report the child having a fit but paramedics arrived to find Lexi in a 'deep state of unconsciousness'.

During that hospital admission, jurors in the four-week trial heard Porton sent one man a topless photo from a bathroom and agreed to participate in sex acts during a photoshoot if the photographer paid cash into her bank account.

Prosecutor Oliver Saxby QC said during the same period, the mother also passed her number to a hospital security guard and went on to exchange 87 messages with him.

Judge Mrs Justice Yip told Porton at Birmingham Crown Court today: 'One way or another you squeezed the life out of your daughters. Why you did so only you know.   

Your actions have devastated so many lives. Lexi and Scarlett had so much to offer to their wider family but you took all of that away.' 

The girls' father Chris Draper, 25, who never had the chance to meet Scarlett, said he was 'broken' after the deaths of the children who were 'an inconvenience' to Porton.

He added in a statement read on his behalf that his girls had been 'let down by the system', and his only comfort was 'that both Lexi and Scarlett are together now'.

Porton, sat in the dock throughout the sentencing hearing looking at her feet with her head resting on her hands, did not react to Mr Draper's statement.