Son beheaded mother for looking like a witch

A naked man seen "walking like a zombie" had beheaded his mother because he thought she looked like a witch.

Daniel Coriat, 44, was seen wandering the streets naked like 'a zombie' before police found him hiding in a wheelie bin in a train station following the murder.

He told officers he was the son of God and had been living in the bin since he 'came down from the sky two months ago'.

Emergency services found his mother Elizabeth,76, brutally murdered at the flat they shared together in Forest Hill, south London, in March last year.

She had suffered almost 50 separate injuries and her head had been cut off completely off, rotated 180 degrees, and placed back on her body.

‘His mother was found on her bed, fully clothed, decapitated and mutilated with various weapons embedded in her head and body,’ said prosecutor Sarah Plaschkes QC.

‘There were injuries to the wrists and ankles, suggesting a crucifixion-like pattern.’

He mutilated his mother’s body with an arsenal of weapons including carving knives, secateurs, a chef’s steel and a pruning saw.

He claimed his mother was a witch, adding: ‘You saw the body when it was taken away. It didn’t look human.’

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