A SON WHO STABBED HIS MOTHER’S BULLYING LOVER MORE

A SON WHO STABBED HIS MOTHER’S BULLYING LOVER MORE THAN 130

TIMES IN A FRENZIED KNIFE ATTACK WAS CLEARED OF MURDER AT THE OLD

BAILEY TODAY (MONDAY.

)

BUT MARK FULLER, 20, WAS FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY OF THE

MANSLAUGHTER OF ERNEST GROVER, 53.

HE WILL BE SENTENCED TOMORROW

(TUESDAY).

THE COURT HEARD THAT FULLER WAS PROVOKED INTO STABBING GROVER

TO DEATH.

HE HAD PUT UP WITH GROVER, A HEAVY DRINKER, BEATING HIS

MOTHER UNTIL HE FINALLY SNAPPED WHEN GROVER ORDERED HIM OUT OF THE

FAMILY HOME.

GROVER SUFFERED A SEVERED JUGULAR VEIN, A KNIFE WOUND TO THE

HEART, AND 14 BROKEN RIBS.

HIS LIVER AND SPLEEN WERE ALSO DAMAGED

DURING THE ASSAULT.

THE COURT HEARD FULLER TURNED KILLER BECAUSE HE COULD NO

LONGER STAND GROVER’S DRUNKEN BULLYING.

MR MICHAEL KALISHER, PROSECUTING, SAID GROVER, A HEAVY

DRINKER, REGULARLY BEAT UP MRS FULLER AND SOMETIMES ATTACKED MARK

FULLER.

FULLER KILLED GROVER AT THE FAMILY HOME IN THE CRESCENT,

HORLEY, SURREY IN THE EARLY HOURS OF 18 APRIL LAST YEAR.

MR KALISHER SAID THAT THE MRS FULLER HAD GONE TO SPEND THE

NIGHT WITH HER DAUGHTER AFTER ROWING WITH GROVER.

GROVER HAD LIVED WITH HER FOR THREE YEARS.

‘BUT THE

RELATIONSHIP IN THE HOUSEHOLD WAS TENSE AND UNHAPPY,’ SAID MR

KALISHER.

ON THE FATEFUL NIGHT FULLER SPENT THE EVENING DRINKING AND

RETURNED HOME HAVING CONSUMED 14 PINTS OF BEER.

HE CONFRONTED

GROVER, WHO WAS ALSO DRUNK, AND WHO TOLD HIM TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE.

IT WAS THEN THAT FULLER SNAPPED AND LAUNCHED A SAVAGE ATTACK.

MR KALISHER SAID:’YOU MAY THINK THE ATTACK WAS ONE OF

CONSIDERABLE FEROCITY.

MUCH OF IT MUST HAVE TAKEN PLACE WHEN THE

VICTIM WAS DEFENCELESS.

‘

AFTERWARDS, THE COURT WAS TOLD, FULLER SLEPT IN THE FAMILY

HOME WITH THE MUTILATED BODY DOWNSTAIRS.

HE LATER VISITED A FRIEND AND TOLD HIM:’I’VE KILLED ERNIE.

I

STABBED HIM 50 TIMES.

‘ FULLER SAID HE BENT THREE KNIVES IN THE

ATTACK.

AFTER THE KILLING FULLER ATE BREAKFAST AND SPENT THE DAY

DRINKING AND PLAYING GOLF.

GROVER’S BODY WAS FOUND BY MRS FULLER.

MR KALISHER SAID THE VICTIM SUFFERED 62 STAB WOUNDS TO THE

CHEST, 27 TO THE NECK, 20 TO THE BACK, 17 TO THE HEAD, FOUR TO THE

SHOULDER AND FOUR TO THE WRIST.

HE HAD ALSO BEEN PUNCHED AND KICKED.

WHEN QUESTIONED BY DETECTIVES FULLER SAID:’I DON’T KNOW WHY I

DID IT.

HE KEPT BEATING PEOPLE UP, INCLUDING MY MUM.

‘

HE ADDED:’I JUST KEPT STABBING HIM.

I WAS IN A RAGE.

I

DIDN’T THINK HE WOULD DIE.

‘

ENDS.