A teenager who stabbed his father outside the family home told a 999 operator he would rather watch him die than administer first aid, a jury heard Thursday.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Ainsley Lowton was just 17 when he fatally stabbed his father James three times with the six-inch kitchen knife on the street.
But on the eve of his trial a judge lifted restrictions prohibiting the publication of his name after hearing the teenager had turned 18 since his father’s killing in May.
COURT HEARD
A court heard Lowton pulled the blade from his father’s stomach following the attack and went back inside the family home in Tibshelf, Derbyshire, before tossing the weapon out of the front door and ringing emergency services.
Neighbours – who had witnessed the confrontation between the pair – tried in vain to save James, a 44-year-old shopkeeper and father-of six.
Details of the assault were given by prosecutor Mary Prior KC as she outlined the murder case against Lowton, who claims he was acting in self-defence.
Ms Prior said there had been difficulties in the family’s home life, with James banned from contacting his wife and children after an incident the previous Christmas.
In the 999 call played to the jury, Ainsley can be heard telling the operator he had stabbed his father with a kitchen knife and that he had fallen to the ground.
He confirmed that he intended to stab him, adding: ‘I do not exactly know why. He is not allowed to our house because he tried to strangle my mum a few months ago and on Christmas Eve he came with the intent to kill her’.
The operator told Ainsley that he should leave any object in the wound but he says it is too late for that.
They then suggest applying pressure to the wound with a pad to which he can be heard replying: ‘Oh, I would rather watch him die.’
The trial continues.
