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Serial killer's
'chilling lack of remorse'
Patient re-enacted knife attacks
A FOUR-TIMES killer branded the most dangerous ever
to be held at Broadmoor maximum security hospital showed no
regret for his actions, a jury heard this week.
Daniel Gonzalez, 25, was detained in a special ward at the hospital
after stabbing six victims in three days, the Old Bailey was
told.
Even highly-feared fellow patients were terrified by the matter-of-fact
way he re-enacted his knife attacks, including one in which
he claimed the lives of a popular Highgate couple. He tried
to bleed himself to death by chewing veins and arteries in his
limbs, and even attacked his long-suffering mother and grand
mother by tearing at their hair during a visit, Broadmoor consultant
forensic psychiatrist Dr Edward Petch said.
The two-week trial moves into its closing stages today (Thursday)
when judge Ann Goddard, QC, is expected to conclude her summing-up.
She will then ask the jury to retire to consider verdicts on
four counts of murder and two of attempted murder.
Jobless Gonzalez, of Woking, Surrey, a drug addict and heavy
drinker, admits all the attacks but claims diminished responsibility.
He said he was guided by “voices in my head”.
The prosecution claim he is now feigning mental illness to avoid
prison.
Psychiatrist Dr Ian Cummings said that when Gonzales was first
arrested and taken to prison from Holborn police station –
where he attacked officers – he showed symptoms of being
“bewildered and distracted”.
He slit the throat of a 73-year-old woman in West Sussex on
September 15, 2004, and two days later repeatedly stabbed former
Camden publican Kevin Molloy, 46, in Tottenham High Road.
Not long after he left Mr Molloy dead on the pavement he barged
through the front door of a house in Makepeace Avenue, Highgate.
Retired paediatrician Dr Derek Robinson, 76, and his wife Jean,
68, a former music teacher. were both stabbed to death in their
hallway.
He said: “I had no idea who they were. It was just the
first place I went to. I wanted to see how many I could do before
I got caught.”
Psychiatrist Dr Philip Joseph told the jury that the most striking
feature of his conversations with Gonzalez was “his quite
chilling lack of remorse.” |
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