A WILLESDEN MAN WHO TOLD HIS MOTHER HE LOVED HER M

A WILLESDEN MAN WHO TOLD HIS MOTHER HE LOVED HER MOMENTS
BEFORE HE ATTEMPTED TO MURDER HER HAS BEEN COMMITTED TO BROADMOOR
MENTAL HOSPITAL.

ANDREW COYNE, 23, OF TEMPLAR HOUSE, SHOOT UP HILL, HAD PLEADED
NOT GUILTY TO THE CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER AND INFLICTING GREVIOUS
BODILY HARM ON THE GROUNDS OF INSANITY.

IN A 40 MINUTE TRIAL, THE JURY HEARD THAT COYNE HAD ALSO TOLD
HIS MOTHER, SARAH COYNE, 57, OF THE SAME ADDRESS: ‘I’M SORRY I’VE GOT
TO DO THIS, THEY’RE COMING AFTER ME AND I DON’T WANT THEM TO GET YOU.

‘

IN A PSYCHIATRIST’S REPORT PRESENTED TO THE COURT IT WAS
EXPLAINED THAT COYNE HAD FEARED A MAFIA-TYPE ORGANISATION WAS GOING TO
CRUELLY TORTURE AND KILL HIM AND HIS FAMILY.

MR.

JOHN NUTTING, PROSECUTING, SAID COYNE HAD SUFFERED FROM
SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS FOR TWO TO THREE YEARS, BUT THIS HAD BEEN THE
FIRST TIME HE HAD SHOWN VIOLENCE.

HE SAID COYNE HAD ARRIVED HOME FROM A SHORT HOLIDAY IN TORQUAY
ON MARCH 31 THIS YEAR AND HIS PARENTS OBSERVED HE SEEMED ‘A BIT
UNNATURAL’.

‘AFTER COYNE WENT TO BED THAT NIGHT, MRS.

COYNE WENT UPSTAIRS
TO GIVE HIM A CUP OF TEA.

‘AS SHE SAT ON HIS BED TALKING TO HIM, HE GOT UP FULLY
CLOTHED.

DETECTING SOMETHING WAS WRONG, MRS.

COYNE CALLED FOR HER
HUSBAND – AS COYNE LUNGED AT HER WITH A KITCHEN KNIFE.

SHE WAS
STABBED IN THE NECK AND RIGHT HAND,’MR.

NUTTING SAID.

MR.

COYNE STRUGGLED WITH HIS SON, HIT HIM OVER THE HEAD WITH A
GLASS ASHTRAY, WHICH HAD NO EFFECT, AND THEN STUNNED HIM WITH AN ALARM
CLOCK.

MR.

COYNE’S POLICE STATEMENT WAS READ TO THE COURT.

‘LET ME FINISH HER OFF BEFORE THEY GET AT HER,’ COYNE SCREAMED
AT HIS FATHER, THE STATEMENT SAID.

‘ANDREW, SHE’S YOUR MOTHER, SHE LOVES YOU,’ MR.

COYNE
RESPONDED.

‘I KNOW SHE DOES THAT’S WHY I HAVE TO GET HER,’ HE SAID.

MRS.

COYNE HAS LOST SOME FEELING IN HER RIGHT HAND AS A RESULT
OF THE ACCIDENT.

PSYCHIATRIST, DR.

JOHN HAMILTON OF BROADMOOR HOSPITAL, TOLD
THE COURT HE HAD SEEN COYNE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS AND BELIEVED THAT HE
HAD NOT KNOWN AT THE TIME THAT WHAT HE WAS DOING WAS WRONG.

DR.

HAMILTON SAID COYNE’S MENTAL CONDITION HAD IMPROVED
SLIGHTLY SINCE THE ACCIDENT.

ENDS*