The mother of a Calgary murder suspect has testified her son was suffering hallucinations and was in fear of animalistic creatures months before a young woman was stabbed to death on a downtown street.
31-year-old Vanessa Ladouceur was stabbed to death while walking to work in downtown Calgary around 8 a.m. on March 18, 2022.
Courtesy: Lainey Bennett
Michael Adenyi is charged with first-degree murder in the death of fitness instructor Vanessa Ladouceur in March 2022.
He has testified he believed he was attacking a creature when he assaulted the woman and only realized what he had done when he cut himself and discovered what had really happened.
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His mother told court that Adenyi started having hallucinations in September 2021, was seeing frightening animals, was talking to his shoelaces and would take hour-long showers to drown out the voices in his head.
She says the family sought help and he saw a psychiatrist who prescribed Prozac for a depressive disorder.
Adenyi’s lawyers are arguing he is not criminally responsible by reason of a medical disorder.
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