SurreyLive reports. Songwriter Philip Tarver, 47, had taken cocaine and drunk beer and vodka before he attacked 86-year-old Angela Tarver with an ornamental sword, the Old Bailey heard.
His 83-year-old father Colin had run to the bottom of the driveway to alert police to the crime after finding his wife of 59 years lying on the kitchen floor on December 19 last year.
Before police arrived at the family home in Woking, Surrey, Tarver cut off his mother's head and placed it in the freezer and put her severed ring finger inside a kettle, jurors heard.Tarver - wearing a woman's floral negligee - answered the front door waving a Union flag and holding a knife, telling officers: "I surrender, I surrender."A jury at the Old Bailey deliberated for.
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