British teen stabbed mom 118 times, asked police to ‘bring a body bag’
A deranged teenage killer stabbed his mom 118 times after first strangling her in their UK home — and then calmly told police to “bring a body bag,” according to a UK court hearing.
Rowan Thompson, 17, was on a break from his $21,000-a-year private school when he strangled mom Joanna Thompson, 50, after they returned from a morning jog in their quaint Hampshire village, The Times of London said, citing a hearing into the death Monday.
After taking a 15-minute break from the attack, he went back — stabbing her 38 times in the forehead, 64 times in the neck and 16 times in an arm, Winchester coroner’s court was told.
“I’ve just killed my mum . . . I strangled her and I’ve been stabbing her with various knives and whatnot,” he told a dispatcher for the UK’s equivalent of 911, relaying it in a “calm, unemotional and quite ordinary manner” after the killing in July last year, the hearing was told.
“I need someone to arrest me, as that’s what you do, and an ambulance would be nice,” Thompson told the operator in the call played in court, the UK Times said.
“Bring a body bag or whatever you do,” Thompson had said.
Along with details about the bloodbath, Thompson also filled in the operator about details from his weekend, saying he’d “had a meal and went to the cinema with my best friends, which was really nice.”
Thompson was due to stand trial in October for the murder — but was found dead four days before the start of the trial while in custody at a secure mental health facility, the report said.
The teen — who struggled with “gender identity issues,” according to his father — had a history of mental health problems as well as an earlier suicide attempt, the paper said.
However, psychiatrist John Sandford told the court that apart from minor autism “there was nothing to suggest [Thompson] was suffering from abnormal mental functioning” when he killed his mother.
Coroner Jason Pegg recorded a verdict of unlawful killing for the mom’s death, saying that “no one will ever know why” Thompson killed her.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/12/14/british-teen-stabbed-mom-118-times-asked-bring-a-body-bag/
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