Mother of Calgary murder suspect details his hallucinations months before attack

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 22, 2025 3:15 PM EDT | Last Updated: 15 minutes ago

The parent of a Calgary execution fishy has testified her lad was suffering hallucinations and was successful fearfulness of animalistic creatures months earlier a young pistillate was stabbed to decease connected a downtown street.

Michael Adenyi is charged with first-degree execution successful the decease of fittingness teacher Vanessa Ladouceur successful April 2022.

He has testified helium believed helium was attacking a carnal erstwhile helium assaulted the pistillate and lone realized what helium had done erstwhile helium chopped himself and discovered what had truly happened.

His parent told tribunal that Adenyi started having hallucinations successful September 2021, was seeing frightening animals, was talking to his shoelaces and would instrumentality hour-long showers to drown retired the voices successful his head.

She says the household sought assistance and helium saw a psychiatrist who prescribed Prozac for a depressive disorder.

Adenyi's lawyers are arguing helium is not criminally liable by crushed of a aesculapian disorder.