'Unprovoked attack' left man with perforated stomach
A mental health patient who stabbed his mother's partner without warning has been sectioned indefinitely.
Timothy Evans, aged 42, was helping to wash up while his parents and mother's partner chatted in the kitchen when he launched an unprovoked attack.
Northampton Crown Court heard the victim suffered life-threatening injuries including a perforated stomach and pierced liver.
William Falshaw, prosecuting, said Evans had started to suffer psychiatric problems in Easter 2009 and was receiving medication for treatment. But on November 27 last year, there was a breakdown in the mental health crisis team being able to supply his medication to him.
The court heard Evans was helping to dry up when he went to the kitchen drawer, took out a kitchen knife and lunged at his mother's partner.
Mr Falshaw said the victim suffered life-threatening injuries with a stab wound to his lower abdomen, leaving him with a serious stab wound and in hospital for two weeks. He required both surgery and emergency resuscitation by hospital staff.
Evans, of Linden Avenue, Abington previously pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to causing serious injury and faced a long prison sentence.
However, due to his mental health problems, doctors have decided he needs treatment in hospital rather than custody in prison.
Consultant psychiatrist Dr Zacharia Halleem told the court Evans suffers from a psychotic illness with features of schizophrenia which may have been caused by alcohol abuse, and warranted treatment under the Mental Health Act 2002.
He recommended Evans be sectioned indefinitely along with a restriction upon any eventually released unless granted by the Ministry of Justice.
Judge Thomas Corrie said: "I do not know if you fully appreciate what you did but I hope that in time you will. Your mother's loyalties must be very divided."
Andel Singh, mitigating, said: "This is very sad all round."
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