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Son battered lecturer to death
STUDENTS and academics have learned of the horrific death of a “much respected and admired” lecturer who was killed by his son.
A Chilean, Enrique Parada Castro, 58, was head of modern languages at Hackney Community College, in Falkirk Street, Hoxton.
The Old Bailey was told this week that dangerous mental patient Omar Parada Blanco, 32, fatally attacked his devoted father in a frenzy after being freed from hospital in west London at the end of December 2007 so that he could spend New Year with him.
Blanco bludgeoned his father to death and then sat watching the Jerry Springer show on TV.
He returned to his hospital late and explained that he had overslept but then “confessed” the killing.
Blanco said he used a pipe from a vacuum cleaner to inflict the fatal head and face injuries.
Blanco admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. His not guilty plea to murder was accepted.
The attack occurred at the victim’s home in Kingsbury, north-west London.
Michael Wood, QC, defending, said that since 1998 Blanco, from Cricklewood, had been a patient on 11 occasions in psychiatric hospitals following violent threats to family members and attacks on strangers in the street.
He heard voices and had a persecution complex which made him a danger to his family and others, the QC told the court.
Judge Stephen Kramer, QC, ordered Blanco to be detained indefinitely in Broadmoor Hospital.
The court heard that the victim doted on his son, who abused cannabis and cocaine, which aggravated his condition.
Mr Castro took him on a trip to visit academic friends in Cambridge shortly before his death. |
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