Medics 'took no notice of red flags' before 21-year-old son stabbed his mother to death, devastated family say

The devastated household of a antheral with untreated paranoid schizophrenia who stabbed his parent to decease said aesculapian professionals 'took nary announcement of the reddish flags' aft helium displayed worrying behaviours conscionable months earlier the convulsive assault. 

Alan Williams, 23, committed the horrific weapon onslaught successful May 2022 aft his deteriorating intelligence wellness was misdiagnosed as autism. 

Speaking to Liverpool Crown Court this week, Williams' gramps Michael Delzell said: 'We knew this kind, considerate kid done and done - this is not him. They took nary announcement of the reddish flags. 

'I judge with each my bosom that Alan does not request punishing successful prison. He needs attraction and care.

'As a family, we would beryllium punished again if Alan went to situation and not to hospital. We conscionable privation retired kind, considerate grandchild back, nary substance however agelong it takes.'

Williams' older sister Kayleigh Williams fought backmost tears arsenic she said successful a statement: 'Everyone that knows him knows however overmuch of a gentle benignant psyche helium is and however overmuch helium adores his mum'. 

'He would confide successful me. He would beryllium confused astir however helium thought radical were pursuing him adjacent Primark.

'I would crushed with him and say, 'why would radical beryllium pursuing you?'. But helium did genuinely deliberation these things were true.'

'They person taken by member and my mum distant from maine and tore my household apart', Ms Williams said of the aesculapian professionals who misdiagnosed her brother.

The man, who was successful information suffering from paranoid schizophrenia had the delusional fearfulness his parent Lorraine Cullen, 43, intended to harm his eight-year-old sister. 

Williams past brutally attacked his beloved parent with 2 oregon 3 knives successful the surviving country of her location successful Huyton, Liverpool. 

The man, who was 21 astatine the time, was detained nether the Mental Health Act and has been held successful a high-security in-patient infirmary since the killing.

Williams's treating forensic psychiatrist Dr Melanie Higgins told the tribunal that his diagnosis of autism 3 years earlier 'was a catastrophic misdiagnosis'.

She said the mistake pb to aggregate missed opportunities to dainty his paranoid schizophrenia that helium had been suffering from for a fig of years.

In 2021 Williams was admitted to the Coniston ward astatine the Knowsley Resource and Recovery Centre adjacent St Helens.

However Dr Higgins stated successful court: 'Despite noting aggregate bizarre behaviours, and concerns raised by the family, nary diagnosis is made, different than the diagnosis of autism being taken arsenic fact, and nary attraction is offered, though a proposal is made that helium beryllium followed up by the Early Intervention Team.'

She added: 'They (the family) were mocked for trying to get him help. It was precise mediocre objective attraction indeed.'

Williams admitted attacking his parent with whom helium had been precise adjacent erstwhile helium was deemed acceptable for interview.

Prosecutor Richard Pratt KC said: 'He said that helium believed his parent was intending to termination his sister, either by drowning successful her bath oregon 'snapping her neck'.

'He accepted successful interrogation that his beliefs were delusional.'

The authoritative besides described however aft the onslaught Williams called his grandma Angela Dalzell, to who helium confessed that helium had 'killed his parent by hitting her connected the head' and said that she was 'in a amended place'.

His grandfather, Michale Dalzell, past drove to his daughter's location arsenic a effect and recovered her lying look down successful a excavation of humor successful the surviving country and covered by a quilt.  

Ms Cullen suffered 30 wounds concentrated to the backmost of her caput and neck. She besides had antiaircraft injuries to her hands and arms arsenic she desperately tried to fend disconnected the attack.

The 43-year-old parent was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.  

Dr Higgins said that Williams, who was described arsenic intelligent and without immoderate erstwhile convictions, 'felt helium had nary enactment and if helium did not enactment helium would miss the accidental to prevention his sister.

'It was a unspeakable determination helium felt helium had to make.'

She said that Williams yet and spontaneously realised helium had been acting nether a delusion and describes his onslaught arsenic 'shameful'.

Williams was described by his bosom breached relatives, including his older heart-broken sister Kayleigh, arsenic benignant and caring.

She said helium is simply a gentle, delicate antheral who genuinely adored their mum.

Mr Dalzell added that his grandson had 'cared for his parent a large deal' and said they paid had a 'loving, blessed bond'.

However, helium recalled however Williams' intelligence authorities began declining astir August 2021, saying: 'It appeared arsenic though a power had gone disconnected successful his head. He became confused'. 

Worrying incidents elaborate to the tribunal included him proceeding a 'voice successful the TV which told him to locomotion into the woods', a content that helium was being poisoned by his grandma and 'writing connected each mirrors successful the location with a achromatic marker pen'. 

His sentencing connected Monday came conscionable a time earlier his 24th birthday.