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Son who killed mother back in Old Bailey dock
A SELF-confessed killer’s three main motives for doing away with his “perfect mum” are to be probed at the end of this month (April).
The details were flagged up at Amato ‘Martin’ Wright’s latest court hearing at the Old Bailey.
Experts in pathology and psychiatry will be giving evidence, while the results of an investigation into his finances will be revealed, the court heard.
Drug addict Wright, 38, of Harmood Street, Chalk Farm, is due for a lengthy sentencing hearing on 27 April before Judge David Paget, QC.
He faces a mandatory life term, having pleaded guilty to murder, but a decision will be made on the minimum number of years he should serve before being able to apply for parole.
Prosecutor Jason Dunn-Shaw claimed that the horrific killing of pensioner Maria Wright was part of a robbery plan because her frenzied son wanted money for drugs.
He said there was evidence from bloody palm prints, which indicated Wright had been frantically searching the terraced house. And in addition to the fatal injuries suffered by 71 years old Mrs Wright there were signs that she had been tortured to force her to reveal PIN numbers.
The attack, and the motive for it, put it into the highest bracket for sentencing, said Mr Dunn-Shaw.
But defence QC, David Etherington, argued that at the time of the onslaught, Wright was under a “drug induced psychosis” and not in control of his own mind.
Devoted mother of three Mrs Wright was found dead, sprawled in her upstairs bedroom, by police officers who had been given the keys to eth terraced family home by her son.
He turned himself in at the Kentish Town police station in Holmes Road after the frenzied killing, which he claimed, was part of a “ghastly nightmare”.
Computer technician Wright, a loner and long-time heroin addict, launched a hammer and knife attack on her in the early hours of 16 March last year.
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