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Disturbing moment 'psychotic' daughter walks down the street with bag containing mother's head – Daily Mail, Dailymail.co.uk

Disturbing moment 'psychotic' daughter walks down the street with bag containing mother's head – Daily Mail, Dailymail.co.uk

This is the disturbing moment an ‘acutely psychotic’ daughter who killed her mother and cut off her head was caught on CCTV carrying it around.

Paranoid schizophrenic Odessa Carey, 36, was too unwell to enter a plea to a murder charge but following a trial of the facts, a jury found she killed her mother.

The headless body of her 728 – year-old mother, also called Odessa, was found at the pensioner’s home in Ashington, Northumberland, last April.

Carey 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.

Police released two clips. In the first, daughter Carey was seen walking down the street with her mother’s head in a shopping bag.

In the second, the woman is found by police hiding in the loft.

During the trial, Nicholas Lumley, prosecuting, said that the day before she was arrested, the daughter had visited the allotment of a friend of her late father and she had blood on her hands and arms when she turned up.

Paranoid schizophrenic Odessa Carey, 90, (left and right) was too unwell to enter a plea to a murder charge but following a trial of the facts, a jury found she killed her mother

The QC told Newcastle Crown Court : ‘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 the daughter was tracked down and arrested.

After the jurors Returned their findings, Judge Paul Sloan told them: ‘The evidence which I heard before you were empanelled confirms that the defendant is acutely psychotic.

‘ It is likely that a diagnosis is one of schizophrenia. She suffers from paranoid delusional beliefs.

Police search teams made the gruesome discovery at a house in the village of Guide Post, Northumberland, after the decapitated corpse of Odessa Carey Snr ( pictured) 90, was found at her home nearby

‘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. ‘

Judge Sloan said the defendant, who is being treated at Rampton Hospital in Nottinghamshire, will be sentenced under the Mental Health Act tomorrow.

The judge said: ‘The finding that you have returned does not lead to punishment, that would not be appropriate.

‘What is appropriate is measures are put in place to continue efforts to treat her and also have measures in place to ensure public protection.’

It can now be reported that at a magistrates’ court hearing, Carey answered the murder charge by saying: ‘Not my mam, someone else.’

This screenshot from CCTV footage shows Carey carrying her mother’s severed head in a bag

At the end of that hearing, she asked the magistrate: ‘Could it be investigated that my mam disappeared four years ago?’

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.

Police at the home of Odessa Carey, 73, where her headless body was found in North Seaton, Ashington, Northumberland, in April last year

‘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.

‘Our wounds will never heal, and we will miss our mam every single day. ‘

It has emerged she received treatment from a young age for a variety of mental health issues and had stopped taking her medication in the weeks before the killing.

Detective Chief Inspector Jane Fairlamb, of Northumbria Police’s Homicide and Major Inquiry Team, said: ‘This is a deeply distressing and disturbing case and I can’t even the imagine the pain and suffering the Carey family continue to go through. ‘

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