Suicide man killed mother
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Your support makes all the difference.An inquiry was under way last night after a man believed to be suffering from a mental disorder discharged himself from a psychiatric hospital only hours before he stabbed his mother to death and killed himself.
Officers called to a house in South Norwood, south London, on Sunday night found the body of a 57-year-old woman who had been attacked with a knife and had suffered severe chest injuries, Scotland Yard said. A spokeswoman said police also found the body of the architect, 33, nearby, together with a knife used in the attack.
It appears he cut his own throat. Yesterday it emerged the man had been admitted twice over the weekend to a psychiatric ward at the Mayday University Hospital, Croydon. But on Sunday, the man had left the hospital with his sisters, against medical advice.
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