Hannah Maguire

I'm not sure what the legality of this is in 72, but why hasn't he been sectioned weeks ago?

Could there be anybody in history who is more of a danger to others than themselves?

I don't know.

Tony's account of what happened on 17th November 1972 is short, sad and incredibly strange.

He told police he spoke on the phone to a friend in Wales that morning, who bizarrely told him that they'd heard he'd fallen down a lift shaft.

Tony later made plans for another friend to come over for dinner that evening, but when he informed his mother, she seemed annoyed at the short notice.

After that, an argument broke out between them, although Tony couldn't remember exactly what it was about.

Tony claimed that he saw Barbara write a note on a bit of paper for the maid, and while he couldn't remember what it said, it made him angrier than he'd ever been before.

He chased Barbara through the flat to the kitchen, where he picked up a knife and plunged it into her heart just once.

Barbara crumpled to the ground in silence, and Tony held her hand as she died.

For a woman who had spent so much of her life locked in one fierce battle after the next, the end was oddly subdued.

Police found Tony sometime later, calmly ordering a takeaway, while his mother's body went cold in the other room.

On trial at the Old Bailey, Tony confessed to killing his mother, but he was ultimately found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

The judge sentenced Tony to receive treatment at Broadmoor Hospital, the UK's most infamous top security mental facility, for an indefinite length of time.

For the next few years, Tony remained chronically mentally ill and had ups and downs.

A psychiatric report from 1973 noted how his dysfunctional family life prior to being incarcerated, as well as chronic drug use, had exacerbated his mental health issues.

I don't doubt for a second that there was some sort of genetic component, but like, talk about out of the frying pan.

He's the perfect storm.

Yes.

Oh, I agree.