Teenager admits stabbing his grandmother to death

     

                          Jurors heard that Lewis Dale, pictured, has admitted that he stabbed his grandmother to death

                        

A teenager has admitted stabbing his grandmother to death while high on mephedrone - then stealing her TV to swap for his next fix, a court heard.

Lewis Dale, 17, also repeatedly stabbed his grandfather as he and his wife lay sleeping in their bedroom. Jurors were told that the horrific 2am attack left Irene Dale, 78, dead at the scene.

The jury at Hull Crown Court heard that Mrs Dale shouted 'What are you doing?' to her grandson as he pierced her heart and lungs through their duvet with a kitchen knife.

Dale, who had cut the phone lines, then left the house in a taxi, carrying a suitcase containing a bundle of designer clothes and his grandparents' HDTV, according to prosecutors. He later swapped the television for five grams of party drug mephedrone - also known as 'meow meow'.

He was arrested by armed police later that day, at which point he only had two grams of the drug left.

Dale denies murdering his grandmother and attempting to murder his grandfather.

Adrian Strong, prosecuting, told the jury that the facts of the killing were largely admitted, and that they would have to decide whether or not Dale had the intention to kill.

The court heard that Dale had been taken in by his grandparents, who let him stay at their home in the weeks leading up to the incident.

On the day of the stabbing, Dale had disappeared for three hours to visit his drug dealer, from whom he bought £50 of mephedrone.

Mr Strong told jurors: 'The defence will claim at the time of the attacks he was the subject of a drug-induced psychosis as a result of him taking mephedrone.

'They will say it is a partial defence to murder. Mephedrone or M-Cat is a relatively new drug which was known as meow meow - a legal high until a few years ago. It is now banned.

SOURCE-DAILYM