Tamera Laws, 28, is accused of choking Doris Novella, 70, before beating her five times with a hammer and finally stabbing her in the throat with a knife in February On the night of the incident, the former meth addict alleged her dad told her over the phone to murder her grandmum or she would be slaughtered.
She also claimed that she had heard voices inside her head that told her to take the life of her relative as she had been doing witchcraft. I was like, I know my grandma's trying to kill me. I was afraid that my grandma was going to do witchcraft on me.
And he was like, 'Yes,' because he said I was protecting myself. Laws said during the course of her evidence that she had developed an addiction to Meth while she was working as an escort. She subsequently began to hear the voices in her head. On the night of the killing, she said she had used her hands to choke her grandma in her bedroom. She then went on to use the hammer. Finally, she went on to stab Doris with a knife in the throat.
She later asked the court to believe she was not of sound mind when she killed her grandma. She's never done anything for me to want to kill her for. A psychiatrist previously told the court that Laws suffered from mental health issues. And these had caused her to go into psychosis and have hallucinations at the time of the killing. Laws, who is not being tried before a jury, could face life imprisonment if she is found guilty of murder.
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