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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 who virtually decapitated a woman during a stabbing in a London street has been found guilty of murder. | |
Nicola Edgington, 32, of Greenwich, killed Sally Hodkin, 58, in Bexleyheath in 2011, six years after killing her mother, the Old Bailey heard. | |
The Old Bailey heard Edgington had tried to kill another woman, minutes before she stabbed Mrs Hodkin. | |
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. |