A video has been released showing the moment a psychotic woman, 36, was seen walking down the street with her 73-year-old mother’s head in a bag after decapitating her with knife and scissors.
Paranoid schizophrenic Odessa Carey, was charged with murder after she beat her mother, also called Odessa Carey, to death at her home in Ashington, Northumberland, before using a knife and scissors to cut off her head. She then removed her mother’s brain and cut a cross shape into her abdomen
but she was found not fit to stand trial.
A video of Odessa Carey carrying the severed head of her mother around in a carrier bag has now been released.
She later brought the head out of the bag and kissed it in front of a family friend.
The daughter was arrested after police found her hiding in the loft of a different house in Guide Post. Her mother’s head was found under a sink by a police officer.
During the trial, Nicholas Lumley QC, prosecuting, said the day before she was arrested, Carey had visited the allotment of a friend of her late father and she had blood on her hands and arms when she turned up.
Mr. Lumley said: “She had with her a bag, the contents of which she showed to the allotment holder.
“It was a human head. She kissed it. It can only have been her mother’s head.”
Mr. Lumley said the allotment holder did not have a phone and did not contact police, but went to the pub and told someone what he had seen.
Someone else he had told contacted police the next day and Carey was tracked down and arrested.
After the jurors returned their findings, Judge Paul Sloan told them: “The defendant is acutely psychotic.
“It is likely that a diagnosis is one of schizophrenia. She suffers from paranoid delusional beliefs.
“She doesn’t believe the body to be that of her mother.
“She is acutely unwell, so far all attempts to treat her have not been successful.”
Carey, who is being treated at Rampton Hospital in Nottinghamshire, will be sentenced under the Mental Health Act.
Outside court, her family said: “Our mam will be sadly missed by all – her sons, daughter, her brothers and sisters, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends.
“Sadly she was taken from us in a horrific and vicious attack by our younger sister, who had suffered mental health issues for many years.
“Our mam was a loving, caring woman who would help anyone that needed it. She also loved to talk to anybody she met. She was taken from us too soon and had a lot more to give.
“We believe that the mental health system failed us and vast improvements need to be made.
“It is too late for our mam and sister, but hopefully they will learn from our tragic loss and stop others from going through the same heartbreak.
Watch the video below:
https://youtu.be/3ru8b6d7G4k
