The sister of Daniel O’Hara Wright said she hoped their mother’s harrowing death in a National Trust woodland ‘was not in vain’.

Michelle O’Hara Wright said in a victim personal statement read to Oxford Crown Court this morning by prosecutor Alan Blake that the death of mum Carole Wright, 62, last October would spark ‘greater awareness of the signs of deteriorating mental health’.

"I urge that we must not remember my mother, Carole Wright, for how she died but rather how she lived - with joy, generosity and gratitude,” she said.

Her brother, Daniel, 24, was found not guilty by reason of insanity earlier this month of murdering his mother on October 23 last year.

The pair had driven from their home in Uxbridge, west London, to the National Trust car park at Watlington Hill, near Christmas Common, for a walk.

Part-way through the walk, O’Hara Wright became convinced his mother was a demon called Lilith, later telling psychiatrists her hair had changed colour and he believed she was trying to lure him off the path.

He beat her with sticks, stamped on her body and removed her eyes. One of her eyeballs was placed down her throat.

O’Hara Wright fled across country, drank from a pond, threw himself into the path of an oncoming car, bit the head off a chicken, climbed a pylon electrocuting himself so badly his arm was later amputated, and, finally, broke into a house and slashed himself in an upstairs bathroom.

During the five-day trial, Psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Kennedy said O’Hara Wright, who had had no interaction with mental health services before his arrest, was ‘one of the more if not the most psychotic people I have seen in 30 years’.

He told defence advocate Mark Graffius QC: "I have seen a lot of homicides, I have seen a lot of psychotic homicides. I have seen cases that border on insane, I have seen some cases where I have no doubt it was insanity and this falls into the [second] category."

At a hearing this morning, Judge Ian Pringle QC told O’Hara Wright: "I'm going to pass what I can only pass under law as a result of the verdict of the jury on December 10, namely that I pass a section 37 hospital order which will detain you in Broadmoor, where there is a bed available and you will continue to be treated by Dr [Christian] Brown and all his very able assistants.

"There will also be a restriction on your release under section 41 of the Mental Health Act along with that order."

The defendant, who could be seen crying in the dock at points during the hearing, thanked the judge as he was taken from the dock alongside five mental health workers.

The hospital order passed by Judge Pringle means that O’Hara Wright will not be discharged from hospital until a government minister is satisfied that he is well enough to be released.

In what prosecutor Mr Blake described as a ‘thoughtful and empathetic’ victim personal statement, Daniel O’Hara Wright’s sister said: "The sudden and tragic loss of my mother Carole Wright has left myself and those close to her entirely heartbroken.

"She was undoubtedly the most selfless person I have ever had the pleasure to know."

Her mother was her ‘best friend and mentor’ and had a 'love of life and adored her family endlessly'.

"The bond she and Daniel shared was special and genuine. He too has lost his best friend and I consider this to be the greatest tragedy of all,” she said.

Michelle O’Hara Wright paid tribute to her mother, who ‘devoted her life’ to her work as a council family support worker. Her legacy would live on through the children and families she had helped.

“I hope at the conclusion of this trial for several things. Firstly, that Daniel continues to receive the fantastic medical treatment at Broadmoor that he so rightly deserves,” she said.

"I hope that he may continue life as the kind, creative and loving brother I know and have always known him to be."

She asked that her mother's death was 'not in vain', rather 'that our story sparks greater awareness towards the signs of deteriorating mental health' and 'compassion towards those who are affected by mental illness'.

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