Mum’s sick ‘murder boast’ before killing 2 kids and plotting to murder other 4

Monster mum Sarah Barrass made a sick ‘murder boast’ on Facebook just months before killing her two children and plotting to murder the other four, Mirror.co.uk can reveal.

The 34-year-old posted a chilling quote from Stephen King’s Under the Dome to her Facebook page which read: ‘Murder is like potato chips; You can’t stop with just one’.

She made the post in July last year and 10 months later, along with family member Brandon Machin, murdered her two teenage sons Tristan, 13, and Blake Barrass, 14.

Barrass and Machin both also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder six of Barrass’s children, including Tristan and Blake.

The sick post was one of several macabre posts about death she made over several months before the double murder.

Another picture posted to her page shows the Grim Reaper with the caption: “I’m not mean or cold hearted. I’m just sick of being f****d over.”

And in another image, a Grim Reaper with a bloodstained scythe points at you with the caption: “Coming for you…”.

Barrass sobbed in court as she pleaded guilty to murdering her two teenage sons at home in Sheffield last month.

The mum cried throughout the 20-minute hearing at Sheffield Crown Court and was separated from Machin, who showed no emotion, by three security guards.

Barrass has been told she could be jailed for the rest of her life.

Judge Jeremy Richardson QC told the pair they will be sentenced on November 12.

Judge Jeremy Richardson QC told them: “No words of mine can ever fully reflect the enormity of what you have both done.

“The crimes you have committed quite frankly speak for themselves. The murder of two children.

“The attempted murder of four children and the over-arching conspiracy to murder those children.

“I repeat, those crimes speak for themselves.

“I have little doubt that each of you will in due course be sentenced to several terms of life imprisonment.

“This may well be a case, but it’s a matter for the judge, where a whole life order is imposed.”

No details were given in court about what happened to the children inside the house in Sheffield on May 24 and May 25 this year.

South Yorkshire Police has never released the cause of the two boys’ death and it was not given when an inquest was opened earlier this year.

The brief inquest hearing at Sheffield Coroners’ Court on June 5 did hear that Blake and Tristan died just 12 minutes apart.

Tristan was pronounced dead at 9.14am and Blake died 12 minutes later.

The court heard that all of the surviving children are under the age of 13.

Brothers Blake and Tristan were found dead at a house in Sheffield on the morning of May 24.

A serious case review is to be held into the deaths of the two boys.

In May, Councillor Jackie Drayton, Sheffield City Council’s cabinet member for children and families, said she was “devastated” to hear of the deaths.

She said the review would be formally commissioned by the Safeguarding Children Board.

“All partners in the city will be coming together to understand, review and reflect on exactly what happened and why,” she said.

The review’s findings will be made public once it has concluded, she added.

Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of the two teen brothers who were laid to rest together in one coffin last month.

Blake and Tristan’s shared coffin arrived to Grenoside Crematorium in Sheffield with an enormous cortege of 300 motorcycles and two Lamborghini cars.

Friends and family say the brothers were both fanatical about fast cars and motorbikes, so local owners were asked to be part of the procession.

As the white coffin, which had the boys’ names engraved on it, entered the crematorium the Ed Sheeran song Thinking Out Loud was played on loudspeakers.

It was revealed in May that Tristan appeared on a BBC programme with a yellow mohawk to raise money for a friend battling cancer.

Tristan Barrass, 13, spoke about his hairstyle in the TV show called Our School in 2017 and his efforts to support his school friend.

Tristan said his pal was “dying of bone cancer” so he decided to dye his hair yellow – his friend’s favourite colour – as BBC cameras captured him laughing and joking with fellow pupils at his school.

In the BBC programme, Tristan says: “My friend is dying of bone cancer, I asked if I could dye my hair yellow for him.

“His favourite colour is yellow.”

Tristan said his hair “makes me who I want to be”.

He added: “With normal hair, you look like any other person.”

The TV series showed pupils as they prepared to go from Year 6 to Year 7.