court has heard. Philip Tarver, 47, allegedly attacked Angela Tarver and threatened to kill his 83-year-old father Colin at the family home in Woking, Surrey, on December 19 last year.
Opening his murder trial at the Old Bailey, Alexandra Healy QC said: "It is the prosecution case that at around midday that day, in the kitchen of the address, the defendant stabbed his mother in the chest with an ornamental sword, killing her. "It appears that, whilst the police were making their way to the address, the defendant decapitated his mother, placing her head into the freezer in the kitchen."And he amputated her left ring finger, which he placed into a kettle."When armed police arrived, Tarver - wearing a woman's floral nightie - came to the front.
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