Son, 31, who stabbed his ‘cruel and violent’ father, 52, to dying is jailed for 10 a long time

A son who stabbed his ‘cruel’ father to demise even though significant on crack cocaine following many years of alleged sexual and bodily abuse has been jailed for 10 years for manslaughter – following staying cleared by a jury of murder.

Sean Maurice, 31, plunged a knife into the back and chest of his motor vehicle salesman father  Paul Maurice a total of 33 periods all through a frenzied assault at the spouse and children household in Bromley, southeast London on September 14, 2021. 

Sean, a father-of-just one, fled the scene across the again gardens of adjacent properties and climbed onto a lose roof, primary to a stand-off with police which finally ended in his arrest.  

Mr Maurice, 52, branded a ‘dreadful father’ by a judge nowadays, advised neighbours he did not want to die as he collapsed bleeding on their doorstep, the court docket heard. 

In police bodycam footage Sean told officers: ‘I’ve got practically nothing to lose… you great deal are attempting to arrest me simply because I defeat up my dad who abused me, he raped me… and you want to arrest me? What sort of f*****g justice is that?’ 

Sean Maurice, 31, plunged a knife into the back again and chest of his motor vehicle salesman father Paul Maurice a overall of 33 situations all through a frenzied assault at the loved ones property in Bromley, southeast London

Paul Maurice, 52, who was branded a ‘dreadful father’ by a decide today, instructed neighbours he did not want to die as he collapsed bleeding on their doorstep, the court docket heard.

Sean admitted manslaughter but was cleared of murder by the Old Bailey jury in central London following 13 hrs and 11 minutes of deliberation.

Putting on a white shirt and tie, he collapsed and sobbed with relief as the verdict was shipped. 

Afterwards sentencing him to 10 many years in jail, Judge Dennis Watson, KC, mentioned: ‘During the trial you spoke of your father’s violence and his physical abuse of you.

‘Your sister and brother spoke of similar abuse at his fingers and on the proof I have listened to I settle for that your ordeals were being the worst. I also settle for that this abuse has induced you long lasting destruction.

‘Your particular situation became unstable, and you employed alcoholic beverages and medicine as a way of dealing with problems and strain and this will have to have contributed to your erratic conduct and deteriorating psychological wellness.’

Mr Watson stated Sean was detained beneath the Psychological Health and fitness Act in July 2021 ahead of spending a transient interval of time dwelling at his father’s home. A a few-week continue to be at a rehab facility adopted but he before long relapsed, the court was explained to.  

The choose continued: ‘On 6 September you became upset when your father refused to let you to stay in his property. On 14 September you relapsed yet again, took some alcohol and crack, and fell out with the household at your non permanent residence.

‘They rang or messaged begging you to arrive back. You replied ”I’ll reduce any person a bleeding river.”

‘You walked to your father’s household. In 10 minutes you still left getting his cell phone, car or truck critical and lender playing cards. You experienced remaining him for dead possessing stabbed him 33 times.

‘I’m glad you failed to intend to get any support for him at all and knew specifically what you had performed, and you told your sister as much when you rang her.

‘You threatened violence to a taxi driver, and were being wound up and aggressive when police tried using to arrest you at 50 percent past 3 the pursuing early morning.’

Sean claimed he experienced grabbed the knife off his father’s kitchen counter, but the choose observed that he experienced taken it with him to the scene.

He mentioned: ‘You took a knife to the scene. Your anger was very clear as you established off from home. Your sister explained her shock and blended thoughts towards her father. She created the position she no for a longer time has the preference to go to law enforcement about what he did.

‘He had other children as effectively as you and your siblings and they far too have dropped a father.’

Andrew Frymann, defending, explained Sean was sorry for what he did.

He extra: ‘Sean Maurice bore the brunt of his father’s mistreatment and took on a ton of the mistreatment to protect his siblings. He also appeared following them, producing him to be unable to attend any additional education.’

He reported Sean was arranging to undertake a Sociology diploma although in jail and was owning weekly video chats with his young daughter.

The court had previously heard Paul experienced abused his little ones and Sean was kicked out of the house at the behest of his father’s younger girlfriends.

On the night time of the killing, the court read how neighbours Sharon and Mark Ovenell were being getting prepared to go to bed when their night was disturbed by a frantic ringing at their front doorbell.

Prosecutor Invoice Emlyn Jones, KC, explained: ‘Mr Ovenell opened the door, he experienced the chain on, and he appeared out and what he observed you might assume will remain with him for the relaxation of his everyday living.

‘There on his doorstep was his future-doorway neighbour, a guy he understood as Paul. In fact his name was Paul Maurice.

‘Paul was slumped more than on the Ovenells’ doorstep, he was shirtless and he was coated in blood.

‘He was indicating he was locating it difficult to breathe, and that he did not want to die.

‘Mr Ovenell asked him what had transpired. Paul mentioned that his son experienced attacked him with a knife.

‘He experienced seen wounds – that is to say Mr Ovenell could see wounds – to his back and upper body. In actuality he experienced been stabbed about 30 moments.

‘Mrs Ovenell named 999 and the law enforcement and London Ambulance Assistance attended within just a number of minutes.’

Paul was pronounced useless on the street at 11.56pm.

‘Sean finished up on the roof of a back garden drop where he was surrounded by police soon after something of a stand-off that took fifty percent an hour just before sooner or later being detained and arrested,’ claimed Jones. 

Jurors heard Sean Maurice was 4 when his mother died and he was neglected as a kid.

‘Their upbringing was severely difficult by their father’s relationships with other girls immediately after their mother’s death, and it appears to be that the 3 siblings had been not nicely seemed just after and were being neglected.

‘The defendant still left property as a teenager, but it seems that that nature of his childhood experienced taken its toll on him.’

Sean advised the court he went to his father’s house because he wished to confront him about many years of abuse he inflicted on him and his two sisters.

He said: ‘I preferred him to recognise me as a guy, I wished to chat about what he’d completed and for him to acknowledge it for at the time.

‘I mentioned pay attention we want to chat about what occurred, and he gave a puzzled search.

‘I said ‘you know what I am speaking about,’ and said a little something that was undeniably about what happened when we ended up very younger.

‘His response was the similar as all the time, that awful facial area. He said ‘who do you think you might be talking to, who do you consider you are,’ something like that.

‘He went for me, physical aggression, he made contact with me by pressure. He threw the very first punch.

‘I felt panic just terror, the exact same as any other time. He was much better. But it wouldn’t subject if I was 17 stone, when you’ve got been conditioned because your to start with memories to be petrified of this guy.

‘I could have been 20 stone and a martial arts skilled but when he smiles and does that horrible deal with with his tooth I am a four-calendar year-old boy cowering in the corner.’

He claimed the combat moved into the kitchen area and the knife was on the worktop or in the sink.

‘I are unable to inform you in that break up next what was in my thoughts, I know that I was so offended.

‘I stabbed him a reasonable few times. I preferred at the extremely the very least he recognise me as a man, due to the fact self-assurance and becoming manly is something that I’d under no circumstances had.

‘I was owning a scupper with the man who’s terrorised me my entire existence, taken every little thing away from me that I managed to get on my individual.’

Sean mentioned that his father handled him as a ‘housewife’ increasing up and anticipated him to carry out house chores and glimpse after his siblings.

‘I couldn’t get a career since I was a housewife. From age 14 to 16 I was seeking immediately after my siblings,’ he claimed.

He mentioned he wished to go to university but his father would not aid him fiscally.

He said: ‘Dad did quite perfectly fiscally by that stage he was a supervisor, he created a great deal of income, none of which we at any time saw a penny of.

‘He was a car or truck salesman and he’d appear house and say we smashed this goal, that target, he explained he’d acquired 70 grand this yr, 65 grand final calendar year, just a correct vulgar male.

‘We under no circumstances experienced outfits, never ever had trainers, in no way experienced holidays and I stopped obtaining birthday presents.

‘We hardly ever acquired Xmas presents for the reason that Xmas was a load of b******s apparently.

‘Throughout the decades I might been kicked out of the residence relying on what girlfriend he experienced and what preferences she experienced.

‘I’d by no means experienced something, didn’t have a person pair of trainers for six months at a single place.’

He mentioned his father had a succession of young girlfriends and experienced re-mortgaged the house to purchase Christmas presents for them, whilst his small children weren’t allowed any.

Summing up the case Decide Watson claimed: ‘The occasions of 14 September 2021 were stunning and tragic.

‘The extremely fact that a son could attack his father in such a manner raises concerns.

‘Sean Maurice’s childhood was an unsatisfied a person and the prosecution do not dispute that Sean’s father Paul could at times be suggest or emotionally cruel and violent.

‘The prosecution say the abuse offered a commitment for revenge and on the 14 September it grew to become much too a great deal, with the drink and the prescription drugs, and grew to become a motive to murder his father, there was no decline of manage.

‘The defence say Sean needed an apology for abuse or at least an acknowledgment of what he did, he was not materially affected by alcohol and his father’s reaction to his attempt, a mocking, dismissive, aggressive reaction, brought on Sean to drop regulate.’