Callum Cameron is jailed for stabbing his mother to death during a frenzied attack at their St James home while under the influence of psychedelic drugs.
Callum Cameron fatally stabbed his mother at their St James home in 2020 after she called an ambulance, worried that he had overdosed on psychedelic drugs.A man who stabbed his mother to death at their Perth home while under the influence of psychedelic drugs has been jailed for life with a 20-year minimum term.The court heard Carol Cameron called paramedics to her St James home on August 10, 2020, worried her son Callum had overdosed on a cocktail of drugs, including the psychedelic DMT.
Cameron faced a judge-alone trial in the WA Supreme Court in March after pleading not guilty to his mother's murder, telling the court he was instead guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter.The trial heard when Ms Cameron, 63, made the triple-0 call about her son's overdose, she described him as not violent.Ms Cameron followed her son into their kitchen, trying to encourage and "coax" him to comply with ambulance officers.
Mr Bowring told the court he could hear stabbing noises before Ms Cameron came back into his line of sight, crawling and clawing on the floor as the attack continued.
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