Thomas Hamp’s parents testify on 4th day of murder trial: ‘He didn’t trust us’

Thomas Hamp’s parents took the basal connected Thursday. They provided the tribunal with their position connected the concatenation of events starring up to their son’s onslaught connected Emily Sanche successful February 2022.

Hamp’s parents told the tribunal that they often texted Sanche successful the months starring up to the fatal stabbing.

Both testified that Sanche was the sole constituent of interaction for updates connected their son’s progress.

Sanche informed them that their lad had begun to suffer spot successful them and was unwilling to sermon his mendacious memories oregon delusions.

“At that point, helium didn’t spot us,” said Hamp’s father, Bryan Hamp. “He thought I had abused him and was having enactment with animals.”

Sanche updated Bryan the time earlier the attack, informing him that his information was astatine its worst. They made a program to instrumentality him to the ER the adjacent day.

Bryan past received a telephone from Sanche conscionable moments earlier the onslaught and could perceive his lad yelling successful the background. He said helium seemed, “Very frantic.”

The telephone was disconnected, and erstwhile Bryan called 911, a neighbour who witnessed the aftermath of Hamp’s onslaught bushed him to it.

Hamp’s parents were questioned astir wherefore they ne'er intervened. Bryan said, based connected Sanche’s intel, that it was champion not to.

“We were acrophobic that helium would alienate america altogether if we pressed excessively hard,” said Thomas Hamp’s mother, Sandra Hamp.

Bryan added that helium and Sandra asked Sanche if she felt harmless earlier the attack, and she replied, “Yes, I consciousness OK.”

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Both parents acknowledged that they were alert of Sanche’s exhaustion successful dealing with Thomas’s wellness and his non-compliance with prescribed medications, which went against doctor’s orders.

The Crown inquired of Bryan whether helium had ever witnessed a psychotic occurrence erstwhile Hamp consumed cannabis. He said no.

Thomas testified connected Wednesday that helium utilized cannabis 2 to six times a time connected average, reaching a constituent wherever Sanche asked him to stop, which helium did.

The tribunal plans to reconvene successful December arsenic much clip is required to measure letters intercepted from Hamp to his family, written portion helium was incarcerated.

Hamp’s defence lawyer, Brian Pfefferle, says immoderate of those letters were lone discovered arsenic precocious arsenic past week.

“When the Hamp household became alert of these letters being relevant, they turned them implicit to the police,” said Brian Pfefferle. “They privation to travel to a decision that’s based connected the truth.”

Hamp wrote successful the letters his cannabis usage could person contributed to his psychotic break.