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he believed his mother, Rebecca Cope, was an assassin posing as his mother and had been hired to kill him. He told police he attacked her in December 2016 because she told him to rub olive oil on a new cutting board — something, he said, his real mother would never ask him to do

When found at her address on 2 September 2012 she was “malnourished and on the balance of probability had previously consumed significant quantities of alcohol. She had ketoacidosis. On the balance of probability, she was not taking her medication, Risperidone. She had neglected herself”.