MENTALLY-ILL LEWISHAM MAN LOCKED UP AFTER KILLING 81-YEAR-OLD FATHER
A mentally-ill man has been locked up indefinitely after stabbing his 81-year-old father to death.Frank Samuel, 54, was heard to say “don’t call me Frankie” as he attacked father-of-four Arthur Samuel on September 28 last year.
Earlier that day he sent him a “rambling” text message saying: “Do not try to contact this number again.” When he arrived at his father’s home in Catford, south-east London, his sister, Claire Samuel, asked if he was all right.
The defendant replied “No” and marched straight past her as if he was “on a mission”.
Samuel then picked up two knives from a block and walked into the living room where his father had been sitting in an armchair.
His sister heard him tell his father “don’t call me Frankie, don’t call me Frankie”.
She pulled the door closed and when she opened it slightly saw her father on the floor with the defendant stabbing him.
She shut the door again until she received help from a neighbour.
Police arrived at the property in Burford Road at 9.51am and found the neighbour still holding the door.
Police found Frank Samuel sitting on the sofa holding a bloodied knife in each hand with blades pointing upwards.
He was ranting and refusing to put the knives down.
Arthur Samuel was treated for stab wounds to the chest and was pronounced dead the same morning.
Samuel was found to have suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and had been in psychiatric care for over 30 years.
The court established that Samuel committed an unlawful act and is unfit to stand trial due to his mental condition.
Subsequently, Judge John Hillen QC ordered that Samuel be detained indefinitely in a hospital under a hospital order without any time limit.
