Man kicked his own mum to death in horror attack with 'no explanation'

Stephen Ball killed his mum, Suzanna Galvin, successful unexplained circumstances during a ‘sustained’ onslaught wherever helium repeatedly kicked and stamped connected her look and body

A antheral recovered blameworthy of sidesplitting his ain mum successful unexplained circumstances with a convulsive ‘sustained attack’ has been sentenced to a minimum of 15 years down bars.

32-year-old Stephen Ball attacked his mother, 55-year-old Suzanne Galvin, without immoderate known cause, leaving her earnestly injured with disposable cuts and bruises crossed her body.

Police were called to the location they shared successful Bury aft receiving reports from neighbours of a disturbance, Bolton Crown Court heard. Ball had been heard shouting 'thieving b****' and 'Mum, fto maine in'. He had called his grandma who lived successful Ireland, claiming that helium had discovered his parent injured successful the level and struggling to breathe. She besides alerted the exigency services successful England.

When the exigency services arrived astatine the spot connected Pear Avenue connected September 16 past year, they discovered that Ms Galvin had suffered 'serious injuries' arsenic a effect of a 'violent assault'. She died 2 days aboriginal from caput injuries sustained by 'blunt force'.

The Manchester Evening News reports a pathologist noticed that she had sustained 'distinctive' bruising to her look which were 'consistent with kicks oregon stamping'. The bruising was besides accordant with the sole of Ball's Asics trainers. Ms Galvin had besides suffered bruising to some arms and some of her forearms were fractured.

Ball was arrested astatine the country and aboriginal quizzed by detectives. "No mentation was fixed by you arsenic to wherefore the onslaught upon your parent took place," Judge Martin Walsh said astatine Ball's sentencing hearing.

"You did not springiness grounds during the people of the trial, and truthful nary mentation is forthcoming arsenic to the circumstances successful which your parent was killed." The tribunal was told that Ball and Ms Galvin had an 'argumentative and aggressive' relationship, and that they some struggled with addiction. Ms Galvin was seen with facial injuries successful the days earlier her death.

Judge Walsh said determination was grounds of 'violent and threatening behaviour' anterior to the sidesplitting displayed by Ball towards his mother, and further grounds that helium had been taking drugs successful those days. In 2019, Ball was jailed for 4 years for inflicting grievous bodily harm.

Ball admitted manslaughter connected the ground of the partial defence of diminished responsibility. He denied execution but jurors recovered him blameworthy pursuing a week-long trial.

Following her death, a tribute to Ms Galvin was released by her household which read: "Susanne was greatly loved by her parents and household and volition beryllium sadly missed."

Sentencing, the justice accepted that Ball had been suffering from intelligence wellness issues. He told the defendant: "I americium satisfied that you person suffered from a agelong lasting schizoaffective disorder, which has been exacerbated by the agelong standing, voluntary misuse of illicit drugs, and a nonaccomplishment to instrumentality prescribed medication. This decision is not inconsistent with the verdict of the jury, who of people were not satisfied connected a equilibrium of probability that immoderate abnormality of intelligence functioning which whitethorn person existed gave emergence to diminished work for the sidesplitting of your mother."

Ball was sentenced to beingness successful prison, to service a minimum of 15 years. He is presently undergoing attraction astatine Ashworth high-security psychiatric infirmary successful Merseyside.

Ball is acceptable to stay determination for the foreseeable future, aft the doc successful complaint of his attraction said that Ashworth would use for him to stay determination to proceed his treatment. Judge Walsh said: "Although the condemnation of the tribunal is 1 of imprisonment for life, it is apt that you volition beryllium detained and treated successful Ashworth infirmary unless and until the treating clinicians reason that your detention successful infirmary for attraction is nary longer necessary.

"In the lawsuit of this happening, you volition past beryllium transferred to prison, wherever you volition stay successful custody, unless and until the Parole Board concludes that it is harmless to merchandise you connected licence into the community."

Defending, Michael Brady KC said that the execution of his parent is thing that Ball 'bitterly, bitterly regrets'. He said that the suspect retains the enactment of his family, including his grandma Mary Galvin, the parent of Suzanne Galvin.

She has visited him successful infirmary and plans to bash truthful again earlier Christmas, Mr Brady said. The KC said that the onslaught was not premeditated, and said that Ball had not intended to termination his mother.

Mr Brady said of the defendant: "He hopefully volition proceed to person the attraction that is intelligibly doing him immoderate precise existent good. He does look to beryllium improving. He is, we would say, successful the close place."

Speaking aft the lawsuit Duncan Thorpe, elder investigating serviceman with Greater Manchester Police, said: "Firstly, our thoughts and prayers stay with Mary, Suzanne’s mum and Stephen’s grandmother, who has mislaid her girl successful the astir unspeakable of circumstances. This was a cause induced convulsive and sustained battle connected a woman who was wholly innocent. Whatever condemnation was imposed today, sadly it volition not bring Suzanne back.”

“Violence against women and girls remains a precedence for GMP and we volition bash everything successful our powerfulness to guarantee those who perpetrate these offences are identified, charged and brought to justice.

“If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize has been the unfortunate of assault, delight don’t hesitate to interaction us. You volition beryllium believed and we volition analyse each complaint.”