Violence by children against parents and grandparents is Britain’s hidden abuse, often misunderstood or ignored – until too late. Pioneering research aims to bring it into the open
By Chronicle Reporter
Joanna Clare Thompson. Photo: Hampshire Constabulary A PRIVATE school pupil who switched genders strangled his mother and stabbed her 118 times before making a chilling 999 call to tell police to bring a body-bag , an inquest heard today. Rowan Thompson was visiting his mother Joanna Thompson and the pair had just returned for a morning jog when the 17-year-old attacked her in her village home. Mrs Thompson, 50, was strangled to unconsciousness in their living room by Thompson and 10 or 15 minutes later he returned to brutally stab her 38 times to the forehead, 64 times to the neck, and 16 times to the arm.
Joanna Thompson, 50, was found dead in July. A PRIVATE school pupil who switched genders strangled his mother and stabbed her 118 times before making a chilling 999 call to tell police bring a body-bag , an inquest heard today. Rowan Thompson was visiting his mother Joanna Thompson and the pair had just returned for a morning jog when the 17 year old attacked her in her village home. Mrs Thompson, 50, was strangled to unconsciousness in their living room by Thompson and 10 or 15 minutes later he returned to brutally stab her 38 times to the forehead, 64 times to the neck, and 16 times to the arm.
A private school pupil who switched genders strangled his mother and stabbed her 118 times before making a chilling 999 call to tell police bring a body-bag , an inquest heard today.
Rowan Thompson was visiting his mother Joanna Thompson and the pair had just returned for a morning jog when the 17 year old attacked her in her village home.
Mrs Thompson, 50, was strangled to unconsciousness in their living room by Thompson and 10 or 15 minutes later he returned to brutally stab her 38 times to the forehead, 64 times to the neck, and 16 times to the arm.
At 12.45pm on July 1 last year, Thompson called 999 in a calm, unemotional and quite ordinary manner and said I ve just killed my mum.. I strangled her and I ve been stabbing her with various knives and whatnot .