Former soldier ‘killed mother in drunken rage’

A former soldier has admitted stabbing his mother to death after downing three quarters of a bottle of vodka and losing his temper. Criston Preddie, 28, called police to say he had ‘killed his mother’ Arlene Williams, 46, at her home in Tennyson Close, Enfield, on 28 September last year. Preddie attacked his mother with a kitchen knife as she sat on the sofa. Paul Jarvis, prosecuting, told an earlier hearing the pair had a troubled relationship. ‘His vile outburst…