A web developer has been found guilty of murder after stabbing his own mother to death in front of paramedics while under the influence of a cocktail of drugs.
Callum Cameron says he has no recollection of the night of August 10, 2020, when the then 27-year-old stabbed Scottish native Carol Cameron 62 times at her home in St James, south-east of Perth.
Cameron had admitted manslaughter and said the killing was not deliberate because he was under the influence of chemicals including DMT, cannabis, antipsychotics and antidepressants, but Judge Joseph McGrath found the more serious charge was proven.
Delivering the verdict on Friday after a judge-only trial in the Western Australian Supreme Court, Judge McGrath said Cameron’s actions were “wilful”.
“This was not a spontaneous act of taking a knife and stabbing the victim once,” he said, according to the paper. alphabet.
The court heard how Ms Cameron, a 63-year-old nurse, had called paramedics in the early hours of the morning worried her son had suffered an overdose.
She told the operator he was “barely awake” but not violent.
Ambulance officers arrived to find Ms Cameron helping him to drink water in his bed and he became agitated when they attempted to take him to hospital.
Callum Cameron was under the influence of a cocktail of drugs when his mother tried to take him to hospital with paramedics and he carried out a frenzied stabbing attack on her.
Family friends said Ms Cameron was a “good mother” who had tried to “get her troubled son on the right path”.
A paramedic told base they had an “unpredictable feeling” but were “not under any direct threat.”
However, when Ms Cameron further pressed him to go with the ambulance officers, he went to the kitchen where he retrieved a knife and she followed him.
Ambulance officer John Bowring said he lost sight of the couple and then heard Ms Cameron scream “he’s stabbing me” before crawling across the floor out of the kitchen and back into his line of sight, where the attack continued.
He immediately called in a “code black” on his radio, a request for urgent police assistance, and told the base: “Mate, please, he’s stabbing mom.”
Ms Cameron, a cancer ward nurse, called paramedics to the home (pictured) in St James, Perth, to help her son.
When officers arrived they found Cameron on the couch with blood on his hands and Mrs. Cameron in another room. They were forced to restrain him with a stun gun when he became agitated again.
He was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, where he repeatedly asked paramedics if his mother was okay.
Judge McGrath concluded that the attack was not premeditated and that Cameron’s intoxication combined with his anger contributed to his decision to attack his mother, but that he was responsible and there was intent.
He will be sentenced in November.
