QB-2022-002447 - [2025] EWHC 2803 (KB)

In the early hours of 23 December 2018, C3 violently attacked C1 in their home resulting in her very serious injury including blindness. C2 returned home and found C1 badly injured, herself suffering a laceration to her finger and shock. The injury was sustained when trying to take C3’s weapon, a knife, from him.

  C3 was charged with C1’s attempted murder.  He was tried in January 2020, and found not guilty by reason of insanity. He has since been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia with auditory hallucinations and disordered thought and at the time of the hearing of this Application was detained in a secure psychiatric hospital under a Hospital Order.