Schizophrenic pupil decapitated great-grandmother with chainsaw

A person has been detained indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital after admitting to the ugly killing. Luke Deeley, 26, broke into the house of June Fox-Roberts, 65-year-old great-grandmother, at random and carried out a killing that resembled “a twisted horror movie”. During the case at Newport Crown Court on Friday, Mr Deeley admitted to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished accountability.

The assault rocked the city of Llantwit Fardre, close to Pontypridd, South Wales.

The 26-year-old artwork pupil was armed with an axe and a chainsaw when he broke into the home within the early hours of November 21, 2021.

He brutally attacked after which decapitated Mrs Fox-Roberts, a mother-of-three, who was described as “caring and motherly”.

Afterwards, Mr Deeley dismembered her limbs and positioned them in plastic baggage.

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Mrs Fox-Roberts’ daughter Abigail made the horrifying discovery of her mom’s dismembered physique within the eating room of the three-bedroom house.

She stated that she had been involved after not having the ability to contact her mom.

Police later discovered and arrested Mr Deeley in a close-by trailer the place he was dwelling.

CCTV of the second confirmed him speaking and singing to himself whereas wrapped in solely a blanket.

The courtroom was informed how Mr Deeley had change into obsessive about Satan and demons on the time of the assault.

He revealed that he believed a ‘increased energy’ was telling him to kill somebody that night time.

The courtroom additionally discovered that Mr Deeley had been requested to depart his earlier lodging after his housemates turned involved by his erratic and threatening behaviour.

Consultant psychiatrist Dr Tom Wynne informed the courtroom: “Luke Deeley was suffering from an abnormality of mental function, namely paranoid schizophrenia.

“Deeley’s means to grasp the character of his conduct, to kind a rational judgement, and to train self-control was ‘considerably impaired’ because of his situation.”

Dr Wynne said the appropriate sentence would be for Deeley to continue to be held at the high-security Ashworth hospital.

In a victim impact statement, Mrs Fox-Roberts’ daughter Abigail said: “Nothing may have ready me for what occurred and what I noticed once I bought house that Sunday.

“I close my eyes and I see the tarpaulin, my mother’s nightdress – these images will never leave me.

“My childhood house, my protected area, destroyed in probably the most violent act I’ve ever seen or may think about. My life imploded, I couldn’t operate, I used to be in a whole state of shock.”

Mr Justice Griffiths told Deeley: “You solely did this horrible factor due to your psychological sickness. You don’t have any earlier convictions and there is not any proof you had any rational motive for what you probably did.

“You thought you were receiving messages from what you described as a higher power and were acting out commands.

“You additionally had the delusional perception there was a gaggle of people out to get you.’