A deranged mother knifed her boyfriend to death ju
A deranged mother knifed her boyfriend to death just months after he warned police: ‘She is going to kill me one these days.
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Victim Geoffrey Edis, 55, had begged police to lock up crazed Geraldine McCaul, 41, telling officers:
‘She’s mad.
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His premonition came horribly true when she stabbed Mr Edis 12 times as he slept in a frenzied attack at his home in (3) Poplar Avenue, West Drayton, Middlesex.
The court heard she was in a ‘irrationally deluded’ state when she knifed her lover.
She had harboured the mistaken belief that he had sexually abused her children was locked up in a mental hospital today.
Prosecutor William Boyce, QC, said that just four months before the fatal stabbing, police were called to a disturbance at the couple’s home.
Officers were confronted by a distressed Mr Edis, who told them: ‘She’s mad.
Why don’t you help? She is going to kill me one these days.
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Mr Boyce said the couple, who had been together for 20 years, were seen arguing after returning from a family funeral on July 9, 1999.
McCaul continued being abusive to her partner into the early hours of the morning.
One witness heard her shouting at Mr Edis saying: ‘Leave my kids alone.
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Mr Boyce said this was an indication of the ‘paranoid delusion’ that McCaul suffers from.
‘There was no substance to these abuse allegations whatsoever.
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McCaul then spent the night sleeping on the sofa.
But at 6am one of their children heard gasping noises coming from his dad’s bedroom.
The witness saw McCaul ‘walking up and down babbling,’ said Mr Boyce.
‘The defendant said: ‘I have killed him.
He made my life hell.
It was coming to this.
It was going this way.
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McCaul called 999 and told an operator: ‘I got the knife.
I went upstairs and stabbed him in his sleep.
Where on his body I don’t know.
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Mr Boyce continued: ‘The police arrived and found him with multiple stab wounds.
‘She told them: ‘I can’t take anymore.
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The prosecutor continued: ‘It seems from the injuries he was asleep.
‘It appears he may have awoken to the first stab wound, tried to defend himself but the number and severity of the stab wounds meant he was not able to defend himself.
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The court heard that McCaul had been taking excessive doses of medication since her mental health problems were diagnosed in 1985.
She would mix those drugs with amphetamines.
Dr Edward Petch told the court an extensive psychiatric assessment revealed McCaul was suffering from a range of conditions including schizophrenia.
McCaul was evaluated and considered to be suitable for treatment in a medium security facility.
Asked how long such a course would take Dr Petch replied: ‘There are cases of this nature that take between four and five years but that is a rough estimate.
‘It all depends on the result of the psychological treatment on offer.
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Making McCaul the subject of an indefinite hospital order under the Mental Health Act, 1983, Judge Martin Stephens QC told her: ‘You committed a terrible crime stabbing your long-term partner as he lay in bed.
‘It has been declared that your responsibility of your actions was substantially diminished by your mental state at the time.
‘The allegation that you made, the thought you had about his conduct to your children was completely without foundation.
‘I am satisfied that the mental disorder you are suffering from is a schizophrenic defective disorder that comes within the meaning of the mental health act of 1983.
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