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BBC News
23-06-2025
- BBC News
West Yorkshire mum 'stabbed son in neck while calling him Jesus'
A West Yorkshire mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia has been made the subject of an indefinite hospital order after she launched a knife attack on her own woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the child, attacked the 15-year-old in a flat last year after the boy's father had left to go to a nearby Worsley KC, for the woman, said doctors were in complete agreement that the offending came about as a result of a Frances Pencheon told Bradford Crown Court earlier that the defendant had asked her son to give her a hug as they lay on a bed, but she then stabbed him in the neck as he fought her off with kicks and punches. Ms Pencheon said the woman was telling the boy "you've got to die" and called him court was told that the injured youngster managed to get out of the flat and ran to the shop where he alerted his father and an ambulance was boy estimated that he had been stabbed about five times and he had puncture wounds to his neck, back and he was being treated in the ambulance the defendant, who had also harmed herself, opened the door and said she was sorry.A knife was found in the woman's pocket and when police searched the flat they found two further blood-stained Pencheon said the boy received treatment in hospital for the superficial knife injuries, but he said he had thought he was going to psychiatric assessments the defendant pleaded guilty to attempted murder and having a bladed article in a public place and the court heard she had since been receiving treatment at a secure Jonathan Rose said the woman had stabbed the child in the neck without warning and he had "bravely" fought her added that although the psychological harm to him would be "significant and enduring".Judge Rose referred to the defendant's history of mental illness dating back more than 30 years and said in the lead-up to the attack she had been behaving erratically, quoting from the Bible and using said the woman's diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia meant it was appropriate for her to be detained in hospital for treatment without limit of time."I conclude you would not have committed this offence but for that illness," he told the defendant over a video link. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
Daily Mail
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Salman Rushdie says he is 'over' knife attack as author reveals 'important moment' he returned to New York lecture stage where he was repeatedly stabbed
Sir Salman Rushdie says 'I'm over it' following the horrific knife attack which has now seen the crook jailed. Hadi Matar, 27, was sentenced last month to 25 years for attempted murder after he repeatedly stabbed the author on stage during a lecture in New York in 2022. Sir Salman recently told Radio 4's Today programme that he was 'pleased' the man who set out to kill him had received the maximum possible prison sentence. But he wishes to move on from the terrifying ordeal and focus on his new book coming out later this year. Speaking at the Hay Festival in Wales he said: 'It will be nice to talk about fiction again because ever since the attack, really the only thing anybody's wanted to talk about is the attack, but I'm over it.' He added that an 'important moment' came for him when he and his wife Eliza 'went back to the scene of the crime to show myself I could stand up where I fell down'. The award-winning Midnight's Children and Satanic Verses writer was left blind in one eye after the attack as well as damage to his liver and a paralysed hand caused by nerve damage to his arm. The event had tight security, with sniffer dogs and bag searches. Hadi Matar, 27, was sentenced last month to 25 years for attempted murder after he repeatedly stabbed the author on stage during a lecture in New York in 2022 Once Sir Rushdie entered the stage to an audience of applause, he joked: 'I can't see everyone - but I can hear them.' Although he said he felt 'excellent' he added there 'were bits of me that I'm annoyed about, like not having a right eye. But on the whole, I've been very fortunate and I'm in better shape than maybe I would have expected.' Last year, the 77-year-old published a memoir called Knife about the ordeal, which he said was his way of 'fighting back'. It comes decades after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses which made him the target of death threats as some Muslims consider blasphemous for its portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad. A short story collection called The Eleventh Hour is set to be released by the author in November.
