How Benefit Street's Neil Maxwell went from loveable reality star to murderer. He was the reality show rogue whose explosive outbursts and unpredictable behaviour made for edge-of-the-sofa TV viewing. Neil Maxwell was thrust into the spotlight on Channel 4’s Benefits Street as a tattooed skinhead who was seen dealing cannabis, smoking dope and taking pills. But Maxwell was a far nastier piece of work than the TV cameras captured. In fact by the time the show aired in May 2015, the cocaine addict was serving a two-year sentence for stabbing a man in a block of flats.

He had slashed him across the back leaving three deep wounds, one 24cm long. But he had won fans from the very first episode, when he strolled to court in a vest and shorts, only to miss a bus and turn up late.

Mr Cooper, 43, was brutally kicked, stamped on, stripped naked, slashed and bludgeoned to death in a "rampage of violence" shortly before Christmas 2018. He suffered 114 injuries including multiple skull fractures, bleeding and swelling to the brain and 24 puncture wounds to his back.

Neil Maxwell, 40, and Luke Pearson, 19, both accept killing Mr Cooper but maintain they are guilty of manslaughter, not murder, jurors heard.

As he was jailed, Maxwell shouted "that is absolutely sound". The self-styled King of Kids was also a role model to young boys on the Tilery Estate in Stockton-on-Tees, who were often seen congregating outside his flat.

Neil Maxwell jailed for 30 years and Luke Pearson Jailed for 24 years for the brutal murder of Lee Cooper.

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