A man “heard voices telling him to kill” before he beat his elderly mum to death in the home they shared.
Andrew Tinton jumped from a railway bridge near Kirkdale station hours after killing his mum by beating her with a lump hammer at least 30 times. It was only when police went to inform Rose Marie Tinton of her son’s attempt on his own life that they found the 82-year-old dead in her home on Folkestone Road in Southport last year.
Liverpool Crown Court heard this afternoon that Andrew Tinton had lived with paranoid schizophrenia since at least 2007. He had largely managed to cope with it but his mental health deteriorated significantly throughout 2020. Nigel Power, QC, prosecuting, said Tinton, now 55, appeared to be taking his medication and was in regular contact with mental health workers working with him but the lockdown caused upheaval in the way he was treated.
