Australia - Maud Steenbeek, killed in burglary, on video call when intruder broke in, 2020 *arrest*

[Strangeworld]

What nightmares are made of! This is tragic.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/na...lleged-intruder-broke-in-20200129-p53vwe.html

A woman killed during a suspected burglary at her Melbourne home was on a video call when she was fatally attacked by the alleged intruder.

The victim, a 61-year-old woman, was heard yelling "get out of the house now" by a neighbour about 8pm on Tuesday at her home on Liberty Parade in Heidelberg West.

The woman was on a video call with an overseas relative when the relative noticed a stranger moving behind her, according to Nine News. The call suddenly cut out and the relative reportedly raised the alarm with the woman's son.

Police are investigating whether Mr O'Neill is the same man neighbours say they saw acting erratically, climbing trees and hiding under cars in the street not long before the fatal attack.

One neighbour said they believed Mr O'Neill was living in a house directly across the road from the victim.

 

[LadyL]

so creepy

 

[FrostOwl]

July 2020: Xochil Quetzal O'Neill
Man to stand trial for murdering neighbour while she was on Skype call with her brother

 

[ifindedout]

May 2021: Found not guilty due to mental impairment.

Man who beat neighbour to death during video call found not guilty of murder due to mental impairment

Xochil Quetzal O'Neill was experiencing psychosis when he broke into Maud Steenbeek's Heidelberg West home and killed her with a wooden paddle, a court hears.

www.abc.net.au

A Melbourne man who was foaming at the mouth in the moments before beating his neighbour to death with a Samoan wooden paddle has been found not guilty of murder because of mental impairment.

Xochil Quetzel O'Neill, 30, faced a mental fitness hearing in the Supreme Court of Victoria which heard he was psychotic when he killed cancer patient Maud Steenbeek while she was on a video call to her brother last year.

O'Neill, who has no memory of the incident, was today remanded in custody while a bed is found for him in a secure psychiatric facility.

"I am satisfied that the evidence establishes the defence of mental impairment," Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth said.
[...]
Dr Lester Walton, a psychiatrist called by the defence, said O'Neill's "frenetic" behaviour was caused by his psychosis.

He said the 30-year-old had no history of violent behaviour.

"It was certainly strikingly out of character," Dr Walton said.

Dr Rajan Darjee, who was called by the prosecution, said O'Neill was "severely unwell" on the day of the attack and may have entered his victim's house on a whim.

"Or he might have gone in impulsively, for no reason at all," Dr Darjee said.

"I think this is one of the few cases where it was his acute mental disturbance that led him going into the house," he said.

 

[LadyL]

recently in another case the mentally unwell suspect was said to be foaming at the mouth in a prior incident as well
I wonder why the mouth foaming happens