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Case adjourned
LEADING experts have clashed over their views on a drug-addict who killed his mother at their Chalk Farm home, an Old Bailey was told.
The self-confessed murderer was due to be sentenced – he faces a mandatory life term – this month but his case has again been adjourned.
Judge David Paget QC, ordered that Amato Wright should be dealt with on April 24 at the conclusion of a two-day hearing.
Two top psychiatrists and two pathologists will be giving evidence on behalf of the prosecution and defence so that the judge can consider their conflicting accounts.
Prosecutor Jason Dunn-Shaw argued that the horrific killing of pensioner Maria Wright was in the furtherance of robbery when her son wanted money for drugs.
And in addition to the fatal injuries suffered by 71-year-old Mrs Wright there were “control injuries” from a knife, which suggested she had been tortured into revealing her PIN numbers.
Wright, who sat impassively in the dock, heard that his defence QC, David Etherington, would argue that at the time of the onslaught he was under “a drug induced psychosis” and not the master of his own mind.
The QC said: “It would be unsafe to conclude that this was a murder for gain.”
Computer technician Wright, 38, a loner hooked on heroin, attacked his mother at their home in Harmood Street.
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