‘Yes, I killed dad’

A psychotic son has admitted killing his father by knifing him in the chest. Builder Jacek Staszczyk, 48, was found by his brother with stab wounds at his home in Hounslow, west London, on 12 December 2021. Mateusz Staszczyk, 25, denied murder but admitted manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility at the Old Bailey. Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson told the court the plea was acceptable to the Crown. ‘It is clear from the reports that the defendant suffers from paranoid schizophrenia…