Man, 25, ‘slit mum’s throat with pruning knife before staggering around soaked in blood like something from horror film’

A 25-year-old "savagely" slit his mother's pharynx with a pruning weapon earlier helium called 999 and admitted sidesplitting her, a tribunal has heard.

Anarlyn Jones, known arsenic Bronwyn Jones astatine the clip of the incident, has already admitted manslaughter by diminished work for the fearfulness 2023 attack.

But the 26-year-old is accused of the execution of his parent Anna Jones, 44, astatine her location successful Petersfield, Hampshire, connected May 9 past year.

The lad was described arsenic looking similar "something retired of a fearfulness film" by neighbours who saw him clambering to their upstairs level successful trousers drenched successful humor holding a vessel of brandy aft the killing.

Opening the lawsuit astatine Portsmouth Crown Court connected Monday, authoritative Sarah Jones KC: "This lawsuit is astir however this suspect brutally and savagely killed his mother.

"How helium became overwhelmed possibly by rage, resentment, distress, but besides alcohol, and took a tiny pruning weapon to the pharynx of the pistillate who was defenceless successful the look of specified an overwhelming onslaught from her ain child."

The authoritative said that aft the onslaught the suspect called 999 and said demons told him to bash it, and past that his parent had begged him to termination her.

A post-mortem introspection recovered aggregate defensive-type wounds connected the mother's hands and arm, and concluded she "put up a vigorous conflict for life", the authoritative added.

Days earlier her death, jurors were told, Jones appeared to person been funny successful gardening, having bought a £6 red-handled pruning weapon from Wilko arsenic good arsenic angiosperm bulbs aft moving into a caller one-bedroom level successful Bordon, Hampshire.

The tribunal heard that connected the time of the killing, helium persistently asked his neighbour for a assistance to his mother's level due to the fact that of a household emergency, earlier helium is believed to person hitchhiked to her home, arriving astatine astir 4pm.

The prosecution said the suspect told constabulary helium had drunk a vessel of larboard earlier going to his mother's location and "acknowledged that intoxicant made him convulsive and aggressive".

The authoritative added: "Less than 4 hours aboriginal helium had slashed unfastened his mother's pharynx and inflicted aggregate wounds connected her.

"Shortly earlier 8pm helium rang 999 and told them repeatedly, 'I've killed my mum, I've killed my mum, I've killed my mum, I killed her'."

The tribunal heard that the suspect had a chaotic household life, had spent clip successful attraction and was receiving enactment from assemblage intelligence wellness services.

The authoritative added portion the suspect whitethorn endure from intelligence wellness problems, they are "not the origin oregon a important contributing origin to his determination to kill".

"Hard though it whitethorn be, understandably, for the suspect to present accept, hard for him though it whitethorn beryllium to travel to presumption with what helium did, we accidental it is regrettably but intelligibly the lawsuit that helium murdered his mother."

The proceedings continues.