TrashDispatch: from Dailymail;
Voices made me do it, says schoolgirl who filmed herself ‘trying to kill her parents’
A schoolgirl accused of filming herself attempting to murder her parents claimed a voice inside her head insisted that she kill them.
The 15-year-old, who videoed herself putting a noose around her mother’s neck and trying to stab her father with scissors, said she never intended to hurt her parents.
She told a jury she pretended to carry out the voice’s instructions in the hope it would go away for long enough for her to get psychiatric help.
The teenager looked pale but remained calm and thoughtful as she answered questions at Cambridge Crown Court from Alastair Malcolm, QC, who is defending her.
She described how she had asked for counselling at school when she began hearing the voice - which made derogatory remarks and said she was worthless - in Year 8, and said it sometimes manifested itself as images of dead people in her head.
At first, she said, she managed to make it go away but she gradually had to take more extreme measures - hitting, slapping or taking a blade to herself - to make it disappear.
On the day of the alleged attack on her parents last February at the family home in St Neots, Cambs, the teenager was “upset” after a row with her father over the way she ate a piece of birthday cake.
When she went upstairs, the voice started to talk to her, jabbering “Do it. Do it”, she said.
“It gave me an image of my mother with a noose around her neck, my father with a knife in his chest,” she said. “They were dead.”
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TrashDispatch: Unfortunately, the girl’s video is Not included in the Dailymail’s report. But it is expected to turn up on the internet soon. Stay tuned to The Trash Dispatch! for further developments.
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