We really need to get rid of these superstitious beliefs. Had this guy been in Nigeria, people would have accorded his accusations against his mum some credibility instead of the schizophrenia diagnosis he got in the UK:

A mentally ill man may be locked up for the rest of his life after today admitting killing his mother because he believed she was practising black magic against him.

Nicholas Aina, 28, had stopped taking medication for his paranoid schizophrenia because he thought it would help him lose weight.

But instead he fell into severe psychosis and embarked on a knife rampage through the home he shared with his family.

Aina handed himself in to police minutes after killing 64-year-old Caroline Adeyelu and injuring his 23-year-old sister Angel Adeyelu at their home in Dagenham, east London, last October 30.

He was delusional about witchcraft, electric voltage and being the 'king of Africa', the court was told.

Aina admitted the manslaughter of his mother by diminished responsibility and unlawfully wounding his sister.

Today he was handed a hospital order without limit of time by Judge David Aubrey KC at the Old Bailey.

The judge told him: 'You have a psychotic illness, namely paranoid schizophrenia, which is a severe and enduring illness

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12465751/Schizophrenic-killer-stabbed-mother-death-thought-using-black-magic-stopped-taking-medication-wanted-lose-weight.html

You carried your 14th century witch hunting to UK... The Country where Witches and Wizards have Grand Lodge and equal rights as citizens

UK had abolished their Anti Witchcraft laws since 17th century

Well his lawyers claim he has schizophrenia and he is delusional and he would escape death sentence



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Na dem.

After damaging themselves with drug, they shout "Igbo"

That one is afraid doesn't mean someone isn't against them and they're sick.

There's a madd obsession with labelling things as psychosis and prescribe all sorts of medically term but the reality is many of these things we want to disguise as medical aren't.

Witchcraft is as real as day light and the obsession with labelling such situations as physchosis needs to be put to an end. Just speaking in egenrsl term not for this particular one. If mad person no fit recognize him mama, the madness mad abeg

If he escapes death sentence or life imprisonment, due to the craftiness of his defense counsels, bye to his freedom!



Otilor! 🥱

Wodu89:
That one is afraid doesn't mean someone isn't against them and they're sick.

There's a madd obsession with labelling things as psychosis and prescribe all sorts of medically term but the reality is many of these things we want to disguise as medical aren't.

Witchcraft is as real as day light and the obsession with labelling such situations as physchosis needs to be put to an end. Just speaking in egenrsl term not for this particular one. If mad person no fit recognize him mama, the madness mad abeg

Could you please break this down for me?
I have trouble understanding!

itsme01:


You carried your 14th century witch hunting to UK... The Country where Witches and Wizards have Grand Lodge and equal rights as citizens

UK had abolished their Anti Witchcraft laws since 17th century

Well his lawyers claim he has schizophrenia and he is delusional and he would escape death sentence.

They don't have death sentence in the UK, most severe is life imprisonment without parole. The schizophrenia defence has been used before in a similar case from 2009:

A divorced father of three stabbed his mother 21 times after becoming convinced that she was a witch and had put a curse on him, a court heard today.

Kayode Kuye tortured and killed Christina Kuye, 69, because he believed she had ruined his life with a black magic spell, the Old Bailey was told.

Unemployed Kuye, 50, of Edmonton, north London, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

Judge Christopher Moss locked up the paranoid schizophrenic indefinitely under mental health laws and described it as a "brutal" killing.

Kuye attacked his mother after letting himself into her home in Finchley, north London, with a key in May last year, the court heard.

After a lengthy argument he knifed her 21 times to the upper body, also slashing her arms and hands as he tried to defend herself.

He was later arrested covered in blood at Finchley Central station, laughing as he said: "I have had an argument with my mother."

Officers forced their way into her home where they found her body in her bedroom.

Kuye later told psychiatrists that his purpose was "to torture his mother to try to prevent her from continuing what he perceived to be black magic upon him," said Alan Kent QC, prosecuting.

Mr Kent said: "The motivation behind his attack was his paranoid and deluded belief that his mother had cursed him through witchcraft and had ruined his life."

Mrs Kuye came to Britain from Nigeria in 1961 with her husband, who died on 1984. She had eight children, including the defendant, and 20 grandchildren.

She herself believed in witchcraft and her son became increasingly interested in the subject during the four years before he killed her.

His mother helped him get in touch with a witch doctor she knew in Nigeria and he would send him money "for advice and medicine", the court heard.

Two years before the killing he began to blame her for all his problems, saying she had "sacrificed him as a child and had put a curse on him".

He believed that "he was a king and should be rich but the curse prevented this from happening".

For about a year before his mother's death he had been saying he was going to kill her, as well as other family members.

On the day of the stabbing he had been "ranting and raving" at his ex-wife and told her that "he had to go and do what he had to do", the court heard.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/killer-son-stabbed-witch-mother-21-times-1829314.html

Most paranoid schizophrenic beliefs are culture based. In the far past, it was mostly religious. Now the prevailing one (in the US) is about politicians abusing kids. The one that seems to have always been around is that someone is watching them (walking by, passing by in a car, cameras, cell phones, internet, etc). If you are around anyone with these thoughts, it's best to distance yourself. Not all of them are harmful, but you don't know the schizophrenics who will kill.


The Nigerians culture is toxic. This is the typical thing told to Nigerians by alfas, herbalists, pastors, juju priests, native doctors and the like.

"Two years before the killing he began to blame her for all his problems, saying she had "sacrificed him as a child and had put a curse on him". He believed that "he was a king and should be rich but the curse prevented this from happening".

Botragelad:

Could you please break this down for me?
I have trouble understanding!

It means there are many cases when people are under witchcraft and that doctors should stop prescribing such witchcraft situations as medical all the time.

Rest in peace to the dead...na who they alive go collect Tinubu palliatives

Wodu89:



It means there are many cases when people are under witchcraft and that doctors should stop prescribing such witchcraft situations as medical all the time.

Mate, how do you diagnose that something is a case of witchcraft and not medical? How do you tell the difference between a natural and a supernatural cause of a problem? How do you rule out other possible explanations that are based on science and logic? And how does witchcraft work in that sense?

How do you understand the mechanisms and the motives behind it? How do you verify the effects and the remedies of it? These are some logical questions that you need to ask yourself. Thanks!

NaBanga:
Most paranoid schizophrenic beliefs are culture based. In the far past, it was mostly religious. Now the prevailing one (in the US) is about politicians abusing kids. The one that seems to have always been around is that someone is watching them (walking by, passing by in a car, cameras, cell phones, internet, etc). If you are around anyone with these thoughts, it's best to distance yourself. Not all of them are harmful, but you don't know the schizophrenics who will kill.

You might be right. The schizophrenia is there but how it manifests itself in a person could depend on the person's cultural background. There are examples of white European schizophrenic killers, and they often cite something culture-specific (like the government or aliens are spying on them).

That being said, there are a lot of elderly women in Nigeria (this is quite common in Anambra which I am familiar with) who experience a lot of degrading abuse/isolation because people have concluded they are witches.

In as much I don't want to down play the existence of witchcraft, killing your own mum is totally barbaric and inhumane.

Please keep in mind the man was acting "normal" while medicated. Once he stopped taking his medications, the delusions of witchcraft took over. Unfortunately the seed was planted by his mother and the juju man she pushed him to talk with. The Nigerian culture enlarge pushed him into his beliefs. How many are roaming about in Nigeria with undiagnosed schizophrenia? How many are unmedicated and causing all types of confusion? It's hard to know because pastors and babalawos, also push people to believe that others are the reason for their misfortune.

Botragelad:

Mate, how do you diagnose that something is a case of witchcraft and not medical? How do you tell the difference between a natural and a supernatural cause of a problem? How do you rule out other possible explanations that are based on science and logic? And how does witchcraft work in that sense?

How do you understand the mechanisms and the motives behind it? How do you verify the effects and the remedies of it? These are some logical questions that you need to ask yourself. Thanks!

Good question. The way out is not to quickly diagnose anything as spiritual or medical but to give things the opportunity to be investigated across varied means, vertically and horizontally. The results of the investigation will reveal finer details.


This applies across broad spectrum of life

Wodu89:



Good question. The way out is not to quickly diagnose anything as spiritual or medical but to give things the opportunity to be investigated across varied means, vertically and horizontally. The results of the investigation will reveal finer details.


This applies across broad spectrum of life

You didn't give a direct answer. How do you do that?