RAPIST STABBED CHILD, 7, IN DRUG-FUELLED SPREE
A psychotic rapist who went on a stabbing spree in which a seven-year-old child suffered multiple wounds has been sentenced to indefinite detention at a secure hospital.Byron Stubbs, 25, said he thought the child was the devil when he attacked them and two women with a kitchen knife at a house in Sunderland following a three-day alcohol and cocaine binge, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
He also raped a woman several years before and only admitted it after he thought police would find the footage he filmed of the attack on his phone, the court heard.
Stubbs, of no fixed abode, admitted attempted murder, intentional wounding and rape.
Stubbs had a history of severe mental illness which he exacerbated through his use of alcohol and illegal drugs, prosecutor Jolyn Perks said.
He had been drinking alcohol, taking drugs and had not slept for three days before stabbing the child in the stomach and then attacking two women who intervened, the court heard.
Police found Stubbs and the house he was in covered in blood.
The child, who also suffered bone-deep wounds to their hand and arms, could have died if the stomach injury had been any deeper, the prosecutor said.
One woman was stabbed through the ear and the other in the arms and hands, the court heard.
