A drug addict stabbed his mother in the back with a 12-inch kitchen knife outside their family home after he was told his drugs had been flushed away, a court heard.
Gregor Bauld was high on LSD, ketamine and cannabis when he allegedly killed his mum, Christine Bauld on March 3.
The 23-year-old is on trial for the murder of Christine.
CCTV footage shows the moment Gregor chased his mother out of the front door in Burbage, Leicestershire and stabbed her in the back.
Leicester Crown Court heard that Gregor launched his attack after his supply of drugs was found and taken away by his father – to try and curb his habit.
However, jurors were told that the defendant then chased his mother out of the house and stabbed her “while she was defenceless, had her back to him, and was at his mercy”.
When police arrived, he told officers that his mother was a “paedophile” and “she deserved it”.
In court today, Gregor – who is an only child – pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter by diminished responsibility, but denied murder.
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Gordon Aspden KC said: “By all accounts, this defendant was a well-brought-up young man, with two loving parents who lived in a comfortable and relatively affluent home environment.
“However as he got older and entered his early teens, his life became blighted by chronic drug abuse and associated mental ill-health problems.”
Gregor said he has had a “longstanding drug problem since the age of 13 or 14 and was “in the grip of a destructive cycle of drug abuse’ at the time of the killing.”
The court heard that the evening before the attack, the defendant was found by his father, Tom, in his bedroom “hunched over, sniffing drugs off a saucer using the plastic casing from a pen”.
Prosecutors said Tom told his son the following day that he washed them all away, which made Gregor “very emotional”.
Jurors were told that the defendant then chased his mother out of the house and stabbed her ‘while she was defenceless, had her back to him, and was at his mercy’ (stock image)
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While his son was in the shower, Tom found two plastic bags containing tablets in his tracksuit bottoms and confiscated them, the court heard.
After an argument, he told the defendant that “he had told the defendant that he had flushed the tablets away”.
Christine then decided “it would be better for her to leave the house’ and got up to take the dog for a walk”.
The prosecutor said: “Mr Bauld next remembered his wife shouting to him repeatedly that the defendant had a knife.
“He said that the defendant had then chased Christine down the hallway and out of the front door, onto the drive.
“Once outside, he recalled the defendant had stabbed her twice with a knife. As she had been cowering on the ground, he stabbed her again.”
The trial continues.
