Authorities found a baby crawling at the site where his mother died. The man accused of murdering his ex-partner and her nine-year-old son in Louth has admitted stabbing them to death in their own home.
A baby is found crawling in the house where mother and son had been brutally stabbed to death
Daniel Boulton alleges he suffered from a recognised mental health condition, which substantially impaired his ability to make rational judgment and exercise self-control, prosecutor Katherine Goddard QC told Lincoln Crown Court at the start of a four-week trial.
Daniel Boulton, 30, denies murdering Bethany Vincent and Darren Henson in High Holme Road Louth on May 31.
A nine-month-old child was found crawling around the house when emergency services were alerted at around 8pm on May 31 last year, the prosecution told the jury.
Miss Goddard said the young mother and her child had been “brutally stabbed to death in their own home”.
The prosecutor said, “There is no doubt that the person who stabbed them both is Daniel Boulton.”
She added: “Although he carried out the stabbing of the two, at the time he was suffering from a mental health condition which substantially impaired his ability to make rational judgment and exercise self-control. “
They had been in a relationship that began in March 2019.
But the court heard that by the end of the year it had deteriorated and erupted into escalating violence towards Bethany and her parents.
A week after the tragedy a vigil was held in the town of Chapel St Leonards, where they were originally from.
Family, friends and complete strangers attended the event in the town square, where candles were lit in their memory. Several of Bethany’s friends read heartfelt speeches and recounted their favorite memories of her.
Bethany and Darren were buried in a joint service at Alford Crematorium.
