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Article: I Suffocated My 5-Year-Old Son On Holy Spirit's Orders; Insane dad cleared of murder.(News)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 4, 1998
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A MAN claiming that the Holy Spirit told him to kill his five- year-old son was cleared of murder yesterday on the grounds of insanity.
In a case described as "tragic and unusual" an Old Bailey court was told how Irishman John Mitten, 47, who was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, used a pillow to suffocate little James.
After Mitten had taken his son's life he told his brother: "I had to kill him in order to save him.
"I was ...