Jamil Jabbie launched the ferocious attack on his mother Marie Annor-
A heavy skunk user stabbed his mother 23 times after biting and throttling her in a cannabis-induced psychotic frenzy.
Jamil Jabbie launched the ferocious attack on his nurse mother Marie Annor-Pobee after accusing her of ‘lying’.
She had considered sectioning him a week before because of his unbalanced mind caused by his drug use.
The 19-year-old throttled her, pulled out her hair, then knifed her in the stomach, leg and chest leaving the 51-year-old fighting for her life.
He then fled the family home in Peckham, south London covered in blood on May 17 last year and then hid in a care home the next morning.
When found in a resident’s room he told staff at the facility in Lewisham he had been chased outside a KFC and attacked.
Today the teenager was given an indefinite hospital order as a leading psychiatrist said treatment was important so Jabbie could ‘understand there is a relationship between cannabinoid use and psychosis.’
He had pleaded guilty to wounding with intent at Southwark Crown Court on Monday and a charge of attempted murder was dropped.
Jabbie sat in the dock wearing a black hoodie flanked by two hospital staff and gave no reaction to the proceedings while Jabbie’s father sat in the public gallery.
Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith said: ‘A week before this offence your mother, herself a nurse, thought you were acting strangely and considered taking you to the Maudsley Hospital, but she didn’t do so.
The teenager was given an indefinite hospital order as a leading psychiatrist said treatment was important so Jabbie could ‘understand there is a relationship between cannabinoid use and psychosis’. (Stock image)
‘Then on May 17 you showed signs of behaving oddly. You left the house, went to church and left the service early then returned home.
‘Almost immediately you launched a frenzied attack on your mother.
‘You punched her to the head, pushed her to the ground, put your hands around her neck and squeezed, pulled lumps of her hair out and bit her on the cheek.
‘You then went to the kitchen to get a knife and repeatedly stabbed her in the chest, abdomen and thigh.
‘There were 23 wounds and two bite marks.
‘It’s remarkable that she didn’t die from the wounds she received, which although were life threatening, were thankfully not physically life-changing.
‘What you did after was very telling. You removed the battery from her phone, presumably to stop her from calling the police.
‘You removed her house keys and left her lying there in a perilous state.
‘Then you went to a nursing home, in which you have no relationship and no reason to be there and were found in a resident’s room.
‘You told staff that people had tried to kill you and you did have blood on your clothes and on your hands.
‘You gave an account of how you came out of a KFC and were chased by two unknown men and attacked, one saying ‘remember me’.
‘But that was false and you were arrested.
Jabbie pleaded guilty to wounding with intent at Southwark Crown Court on Monday and a charge of attempted murder was dropped
‘Your mother described you as being loving to her and what happened that evening has had a terrible effect on her.
‘She says in her statement she had forgiven you totally.
‘So why did this happen? Dr Ian Cummings diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, that illness has not been helped by cannabis use.
‘I’m satisfied all the relevant condition have been proved a hospital order is necessary for the protection of the public.’
Dr Bradley Hillier, who was one of three forensic psychiatrists to assess Jabbie after the attack said skunk was one of the contributing factors behind his psychosis.
He told the court: ‘In my view he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time, that disorder being schizophrenia – a severe and enduring mental disorder characterised by episodes of psychosis, disorders of thought, hallucinations and delusional beliefs at times.
‘At the time of the offence he was suffering a psychotic episode, all the doctors are in agreement.
‘It’s my recommendation to the court that Mr Jabbie should be under a hospital order with restrictions.
‘He should get further treatment. It’s is very important Mr Jabbie is able to understand there is a relationship between cannabinoid use and psychosis.
Jabbie will be kept in a secure hospital wing at Bethlam Hospital in south London (pictured) for psychiatric treatment and will have to apply to a mental health tribunal in order to be released
‘Skunk in this case exacerbated the underlying psychotic condition.
‘I think going forward his risk to relapse could be high, but providing he refrains from misuse of substances and cannabis in particular, his prognosis could be positive.’
Jabbie’s criminal history includes a handbag snatch in 2013, having cannabis in 2015 as well as a conviction for dealing heroin and cocaine in which he was handed a youth rehabilitation order.
In June 2015, Jabbie was arrested in Wiltshire at a house raided by police with 11 0.4g of crack cocaine, a BB gun, a mobile phone and £610 cash.
Jabbie will be kept in a secure hospital wing at Bethlam Hospital in south London for psychiatric treatment and will have to apply to a mental health tribunal in order to be released.