A son went on a psychotic rampage and killed his own mother after becoming paranoid about the Freemasons and the illuminati, a court heard yesterday.
Malo Myers took two kitchen knives from a drawer at the family home in Aylesbury and stabbed his mother Lorna to death as she tried to prevent him leaving the house.
He then lunged at a child victim – stabbing him after he tripped up in the kitchen, the court was told.
Myers, 32, stabbed his Lorna twice in the chest, prosecutor Michael Roques told the judge.
The horrific attack followed weeks of growing fear among his family, after Myers suffered increasingly paranoid delusions about the secretive Freemasons and popular internet conspiracy ‘The Illuminati’, said Mr Roques.
Judge Heather Norton heard that his family had pleaded with him to get medical attention for his deteriorating mental health, which followed his frequent and fearful comments about the secret societies and making bizarre hand gestures.
However, the prosecutor said Myers’ 54-year-old mother was found with two stab wounds after police and paramedics rushed to the incident at 3.45pm on July 8 2018 – as neighbours celebrated in their homes as England played Sweden in the 2018 World Cup.
Judge Norton heard a post mortem examination later established the cause of Mrs Myers’ death as two knife wounds to the chest, after a Home Office pathologist found wounds 11cms and 4.5cms deep.
The second victim was airlifted to hospital and received treatment for non-life threatening injuries.
He was discharged after nine days and is expected to make a full recovery, added Mr Roques.
Mr Roques told Judge Norton how the attack became a manhunt as Myers fled the scene and sprinted into the garden, over fences and onto the roofs of garages – where witnesses watched in horror as he ran from his mother’s home carrying blood-soaked knives.
However, he was courageously stopped in his tracks by two pedestrians who spotted him looking “suspicious” and became concerned he was a burglar.
They physically detained him until police arrived at the scene and arrested him.
Myers was later detained under the Mental Health Act and transferred to Kneesworth House Hospital, Royston in Hertfordshire, where he refused treatment for his mental and physical health and was uncompliant with officers’ inquiries.
Judge Norton sentenced Myers to nine years and four months for manslaughter and four years for count two, Section 18 wounding, with both sentences running concurrently.
He stood with his head bowed and eyes closed as he was addressed by the judge.