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| Voice 'told girl to kill parents' | Voice 'told girl to kill parents' |
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| A girl accused of trying to murder her parents and filming the attack claims a voice in her head told her to do it. | |
| The youngster, who was just 15 at the time, said she had experienced voices before the attack, which happened in her parents' living room last February. | |
| She told Cambridge Crown Court a voice inside her head had ordered her to kill her parents saying: "Do it, do it." | |
| The teenager denies attempting to murder her parents at their home in St Neots in Cambridgeshire. | |
| She also pleads not guilty to attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle her mother with intent and attempting to unlawfully wound her father. | She also pleads not guilty to attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle her mother with intent and attempting to unlawfully wound her father. |
| Hearing voices | Hearing voices |
| The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court the voice "showed me what it wanted me to do. It was just an image in my head, my mother with a noose around her neck, my dad with a knife in his chest". | The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court the voice "showed me what it wanted me to do. It was just an image in my head, my mother with a noose around her neck, my dad with a knife in his chest". |
| But giving evidence, the teenager who is now 16, said she had never intended to kill her parents. | But giving evidence, the teenager who is now 16, said she had never intended to kill her parents. |
| The jury have heard how after an argument between the teenager and her father, the girl went upstairs to her bedroom. | The jury have heard how after an argument between the teenager and her father, the girl went upstairs to her bedroom. |
| It was there that she put on a nightgown, applied make-up and then filmed herself as she talked about her plans to kill her parents, the court heard. | It was there that she put on a nightgown, applied make-up and then filmed herself as she talked about her plans to kill her parents, the court heard. |
| The jury has heard she had a noose made from dressing gown cords, with which she planned to strangle her mother, and had a pair of scissors to stab her father with. | The jury has heard she had a noose made from dressing gown cords, with which she planned to strangle her mother, and had a pair of scissors to stab her father with. |
| John Farmer, prosecuting, said the only reason the girl did not succeed was that the scissors she used were not sharp enough and her father was not harmed and was able to grab them from her. | |
| In court the teenager said she had begun hearing voices in her head when she was in Year Eight. | In court the teenager said she had begun hearing voices in her head when she was in Year Eight. |
| She also said she suffered hallucinations and, as a result, had received counselling at school. | She also said she suffered hallucinations and, as a result, had received counselling at school. |
| Sometimes she said she had been sitting in a classroom when she would suddenly see people with parts of their skulls missing "white and obviously dead". | Sometimes she said she had been sitting in a classroom when she would suddenly see people with parts of their skulls missing "white and obviously dead". |
| The girl said she never intended to harm her parents. She said: "I needed them to see something was wrong and be able to accept it." | The girl said she never intended to harm her parents. She said: "I needed them to see something was wrong and be able to accept it." |
| The case continues. | The case continues. |