Dad killed 3-year-old son, stabbed "unfaithful" wife (London, England, United Kingdom)

We've posted on dad PAUL DEYA before. Frankly, I really wonder if the wife was really "cheating." Any paranoid scumbag who stabs to death a 3-year-old child because his mother is allegedly "unfaithful" is also perfectly capable of delusional thinking. And why would you "punish" a child for such a thing anyway, even if it were true? It's all just coercive control/torture of the mother by a guy who treats "his" women and children as his possessions--to keep or dispose of as he sees fit.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23912664-nurse-stabs-toddler-son-to-death-and-tries-to-unfaithful-murder-wife-court-hears.do

Father killed son and stabbed 'unfaithful' wife, court hears
Paul Cheston, Courts Correspondent
10 Jan 2011

A student nurse stabbed his own toddler son to death and tried to murder the wife he accused of cheating on him, the Old Bailey heard today.

Paul Deya's three-and-a-half-year-old son Wilson bled to death in the family's Bermondsey flat while his mother was at church, the jury was told.

The child's 20-month-old sister was in her cot as the savage attack took place but was left unharmed, the court heard.

When Deya's wife Jackline Otieno returned home he chased her out of the flat and stabbed her.

Father-of-two Deya, 32, was born in Kenya and came to Britain on a student visa.

He married Ms Otieno, 29, in June 2004 but their relationship deteriorated as she found him obsessive and overbearing.

On the day before the tragedy in November 2009 they had agreed to separate and he would move out, the court heard.

But while his wife was at the Gilbert Deya Ministries in the Old Kent Road where she worked as a volunteer, Deya texted her with the message "I wish you all the best."

Immediately concerned, she rushed home but found all the doors locked and bolted from the inside forcing her to climb in through the bathroom window.

Inside she saw her child in a pool of blood in his bedroom then her husband ran at her bare chested with a kitchen knife.

She fled screaming from the flat but he caught her on the outside stairs and stabbed her in the head and neck in front of a neighbour and his child.

She was cut so badly her right ear "was held together by the cartilage alone," said Richard Whittam QC, prosecuting.

Deya then returned to the flat and knifed himself in the neck and stomach, the court heard.

He recovered in hospital after intensive care treatment and was arrested.

Inside the flat officers found a handwritten note beginning "Hi Jackie" and including instructions for the burial of his and his children's bodies.

In the note Deya accused her of cheating on him and said he had "decided to disconnect (him)self completely with you including my children."

He added: "Your warnings and threths pushed me into this."

After this arrest Deya wrote letters claiming his wife had had affairs and he suspected one of his children was not his.

He even accused one of the officers guarding him in hospital of seeing his wife.

Deya told detectives that on the day his son died he had wanted to end his own life.

His own father had left him when he was young "so am I going to do the same thing and leave my son to suffer? It is better I go with my son."

When he told Wilson he was going "somewhere forever" the boy had asked him to take him with him. Deya said the next thing he remembered was waking up in hospital.

Mr Whittam told the jury: "This is a case of great tragedy. The real issue is likely to be why it happened. Was it out of possessive jealousy or because Deya was suffering from such an abnormality of mind that it substantially diminished his responsibility for killing Wilson?"

Deya has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He also denied the attempted murder of Ms Otieno.

The case continues.