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Bexleyheath knife killer Nicola Edgington guilty of murder Bexleyheath knife killer Nicola Edgington guilty of murder
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A psychiatric patient has been found guilty of murder after she stabbed a woman to death in a London street. A psychiatric patient who virtually decapitated a woman during a stabbing in a London street has been found guilty of murder.
Nicola Edgington, 32, from Greenwich, killed Sally Hodkin, 58, in Bexleyheath in October 2011. She had admitted the attack but denied murder. Nicola Edgington, 32, of Greenwich, killed Sally Hodkin, 58, in Bexleyheath in 2011, six years after killing her mother, the Old Bailey heard.
At the Old Bailey, she was also convicted of the attempted murder of Kerry Clark, 24. The Old Bailey heard Edgington had tried to kill another woman, minutes before she stabbed Mrs Hodkin.
In 2005, she admitted killing her mother on the grounds of diminished responsibility. She denied murder and attempted murder, but was convicted her on both counts
The court heard that in 2006, Edgington had admitted killing her mother on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Personality disorder
Edgington had pinned Mrs Hodkin to the ground and slashed her throat with a butcher's knife, virtually decapitating her, the court was told.
Shortly before the fatal stabbing, the defendant had attacked Kerry Clark, 22, at a bus stop but fled when her victim fought back and took the knife.
The prosecution said she had borderline personality disorder and her actions were deliberate, while the defence argued she was mentally ill with schizophrenia and her responsibility was diminished.
At the trial over her mother's killing in 2006, the prosecution had accepted her manslaughter plea, but rejected the same plea in the latest case.
Following the previous case, she was ordered to be detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act for killing her mother Marion, 60, the previous year.
She was released and allowed to live in the community in 2009 where she had been monitored by a doctor, nurse and social worker.