A man with mental health problems who threatened to kill his dad as he wielded a steak knife will not go to prison. Recorder Peter Ievins told Craig Mee: "Prison, in my view, is not the place for someone with schizophrenia."
Mee, 37, of no fixed address, appeared before Nottingham Crown Court on Monday (August 15) for sentencing for grievous bodily harm and threats to kill. Mee, who suffers from epilepsy and alcohol dependency, had lived alone with his dad after his mum died.
The court heard that, before the two incidents, Mee regularly held a knife to his dad who was scared of his son. When he called police previously, Mee took the phone from his father.
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Lauren Fisher, prosecuting, told the court: "The defendant wants to be famous, to be thin, and to live in a mansion. He lives in the community. When he sees thin people, he wishes to stab them because of how thin they are.
"When in drink, the defendant reacts violently when told something he does not wish to do." The GBH on his dad happened on October 1, 2021, when he pushed him to the hard floor, breaking his wrist.
He told his son's support worker he had fallen over, "no doubt fearing his son's response if he told the truth," said Miss Fisher. On June 1 this year, father and son were watching television when Mee began singing an Elton John song.
His father asked him to be quiet, to which Mee's response was: "You don't want me to be a pop star." He grabbed the steak knife and held it over his dad's face, saying: "I'm going to kill you."
Mee then cut his own wrist which his father treated, and they both went to bed. The following morning Mee acting as if nothing had happened.
But Mee told his support worker and she contacted his father who told her his son had broken his wrist months earlier. Mee was arrested at home and went on to plead guilty.
He has been remanded in custody since then. His schizophrenia is in remission.
The judge was told Mee's time on remand has been a wake-up call. He said: "There is nothing on your record to suggest you present a risk to the general public, but you do present a risk to your father."
Mee was given a three-year community order, 20 rehabilitation activity days, 90 days of alcohol abstinence monitoring, and a restraining order banning him from his father's home in Chilwell. Mee will also be living in supported accommodation in Beeston.
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