Callum Cameron woke his mother up on the night of August 10, 2020, to tell her he was overdosing on drugs and needed help. Carol Cameron, 63, was a former nurse. She called triple-zero to ask for an ambulance at their St James home, saying her son was acting erratically.
Callum Cameron stabbed his mum 63 times in a drug-induced psychosis. Credit: Facebook As they arrived, he stabbed her 62 times to the face, neck, arms, legs, back and chest in an attack was so violent and disturbing the jury was spared the details. But on Friday a Supreme Court judge found the 31-year-old guilty of her murder despite his claims he could not remember it.
“This was not a spontaneous act of picking up a knife and stabbing the victim once,” Justice Joseph McGrath said in his judgement released on Friday. “The accused went to the kitchen, retrieved a suitable weapon and then inflicted a prolonged, brutal attack. “I accept that the killing was not premeditated.
Rather, I find that the accused became angry and acted with purpose by inflicting the violent attack. “The intensity of the attack is consistent with a person intoxicated with illicit substances. I accept that the accused’s level of intoxication combined with his anger were factors that [bore] strongly on his decision to attack.
” During his trial in March, the court heard how Cameron had taken a cocktail of mushrooms, antidepressants and potent plant-based psychedelic ayahuasca at the time of the attack. In Carol’s triple-zer.