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Cheers as murderer gets life for hammer attack which left boy's skull in fragments Mystery of child killer's motive

CHILD killer James Reid was jailed for life yesterday, the motive for his brutal murder of four-year-old James Ward still a mystery. Police believe that the horror of what Reid did made him forget the details of his crime.

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