Can Arslan, 52, fatally stabbed Matthew Boorman, a father of three, 27 times in front of his lawn last October, before forcing himself into the home of a second man, Peter Marsden, and stabbing him eight times, according to court . Arslan was to be evicted from his property on Snowdonia Street in Walton Cardiff, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, after allegedly subjecting his neighbors to chronic verbal abuse and threats. He initially told police “my voice told me to ‘kill him’” around 7.30pm after the attack, and later said the voice belonged to his childhood teddy bear, according to the Bristol Crown Court. Arslan denies killing Mr Boorman on the grounds of reduced liability. Picture: Matthew Boorman died last October She has admitted to attempting to assassinate Mr Marsden and inflicting serious bodily harm on Sarah Boorman, Mr Boorman’s wife, whom she cut in the leg when she tried to pull him away from her husband. He also admits to the charge of theft. But Dr. John Sandford, a forensic psychologist, told jurors in such cases, “you have to have a degree of skepticism.” “When you make a voice on your own you are always very skeptical, but when you make a voice on your own after a serious violation you are even more skeptical.” Usually, the voices would fit the pattern of one’s delusional beliefs, the witness said. Arslan is taken daily from Broadmoor High Security Psychiatric Hospital, accompanied by six psychiatric nurses. However, Mr Sandford said he did not consider Arslan mentally ill and did not need to be treated. The accused, he said, had a personality disorder, which he described as affecting people with “personality outside the normal range”. “Sometimes you can help them,” said Dr. Sandford, “but in some cases you can not because that’s exactly what their character is.” Use the Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 1:03 An off-duty police officer treats a man with a knife He explained that people suffering from a psychotic episode or prolonged mental illness find it difficult to distinguish between the person who speaks to them in real life and the voice in their head. Arslan, the psychiatrist said, believed the UK was racist, the police were corrupt and his neighbors were unfair to him and he was being persecuted. Dr Sandford said: “There is nothing to suggest that this man is mentally ill or disturbed in any way, he is doing a series of deliberate acts aimed at killing Mr Burman and trying to kill him. another neighbor. – It’s clear how he does it. “He is quite controlled in the way he stabs – he stabs [the victim]he is not frantic, he stabs him slowly and deliberately in the throat “. Arslan’s legal team argues that the personality disorder is in itself “an abnormality of mental function” and provides him with a defense against murder. The trial continues.
