Tragedy of woman strangled by her son after she tried to get him treatment

A mentally ill son who suffocated his mother to death hours after she arrived from France to try and get treatment for him has been detained indefinitely in a secure psychiatric unit. Barry Levitt, 36, tried to stab 68-year-old Celia with a knitting needle before throttling her with a lamp cord and eventually smothering her with a cushion at his home in Stoneleigh Road, Bromley, southeast London. She had arrived in London the day before, Thursday 30 August last year,…