Unsure why he slashed the necks of an 82-year-old woman and her son while buying a printer, Adam Curtis Brown thought paint fumes may be to blame.
The Brisbane Supreme Court has heard Brown, 43, was affected by pills and alcohol when he went berserk at Hervey Bay, about 190 kilometres north of Brisbane, in April 2018.
Brown arrived at their property to discuss buying the printer but became agitated and erratic, at one stage removing his shirt.The man thought he was going to die and called out to his mother. Overall the man lost half a litre of blood and suffered a severed windpipe, later requiring a tracheotomy.It couldn’t stop Brown from again attacking the elderly woman who was visiting from the UK.Brown pursued the man as he tried to get help, throwing a metal fence post at him before driving away.He was abusing his medication and drinking wine before the attack, but defence barrister James Godbolt said Brown was genuinely at a loss to explain his bizarre conduct.
But the Crown obtained a forensic medical officer’s report that ruled it could not have contributed in any way.Justice Peter Davis interjected: “But the point about that is he might be questioning himself, you can’t say that is not genuine.
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