The mother of a suspect of Calgary murder testified that her son suffered from hallucinations and was afraid of animal creatures of the months before a young woman was stabbed to death in a street in the city center.
Vanessa Ladouceur, 31, was stabbed to death while going to work in downtown Calgary around 8:00 am on March 18, 2022.
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Michael Adenyi is accused of first degree murder in the death of the fitness instructor Vanessa Ladouceur in March 2022.
He testified that he believed that he would attack a creature when he assaulted the woman and only realized what he had done when he cut himself off and discovered what had really happened.
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His mother said in the short time that Adenyi had started to have hallucinations in September 2021, saw scary animals, spoke to her laces and took one hour showers to drown the voices in her head.
She says the family asked for help and saw a psychiatrist who prescribed Prozac for a depressed disorder.
Adenyi lawyers argue that he is not criminally responsible due to a medical disorder.
