"I can't take it anymore": Man slits 94-yr-old grandmother's throat with butter knife while having tea with her at nursing home
In a shocking incident, a grandson reportedly slit his grandmother's throat using a bread knife and told the nursing home staff he "couldn't take it anymore." Ruby Wilson, 94, was "pleased" to see her grandson Antony Jennings, 33, of Ilford, east London, and sat down to have a cup of tea with him at the Forest Place Nursing Home in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, before things turned ugly.
According to the staff, Ruby, who suffered from dementia, had no idea what was about to transpire before Jennings took a 20 cm long blade and fatally attacked his grandma on November 29, 2017.
After the incident, he tapped a nurse on her shoulder and said, "I'm sorry, I have just killed my Nan", the Chelmsford Crown Court heard.
Officers were immediately summoned to the scene where they arrested Jennings, who was reportedly pacing up and down the corridor, rambling. "I just couldn't take it anymore... She doesn't know who anyone is, she doesn't understand," he reiterated.
As Jennings was arrested and detained, the great-great-grandmother lost her life sitting in her bedroom armchair. "I just wanted to get that done for ages, mate... She was dead anyway," he told officers as they led him away.