Nicola Edgington was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility, attempted murder and murder.
16 Facts About Nicola Edgington
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Nicola Edgington told police that she was abused by her father when younger.
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Nicola Edgington worked as a hairdresser, shop assistant and saleswoman.
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Nicola Edgington married a Jamaican man who is the father of her younger son.
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On 4 November 2005, Nicola Edgington stabbed her 60-year-old mother, Marion, nine times in Forest Row, East Sussex for which she was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility at Lewes Crown Court on 23 October 2006.
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Nicola Edgington was detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act 1983 and, following treatment and psychiatric evaluation, was released conditionally in September 2009, moving into a Greenwich flat.
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In September 2011, Nicola Edgington sent a message via Facebook to her brother saying she was not getting the help she needed, missed her mother, and had had a miscarriage.
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Nicola Edgington left her phone number and asked him not to tell their father, Harry, that she had made contact.
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Nicola Edgington's brother replied that she killed their mother and he found the body, that the miscarriage was good news, and that she should kill herself by cutting her wrists.
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Later in the morning of 10 October 2011, while waiting for staff to change shift and admit her, Nicola Edgington left the hospital through a door that should have been locked, took two buses, and stabbed two strangers in the street in separate attacks in Bexleyheath.
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Nicola Edgington bought a knife from Asda with which she tried to kill 22-year-old Kerry Clark, who survived, and a member of the public took the knife off her.
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Nicola Edgington subsequently stole a knife from a butcher's shop then stabbed and nearly decapitated 58-year-old Sally Hodkin, who died of her injuries within minutes.
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Nicola Edgington believed a 100-eyed monster was guarding the throne of God against enemies, and saw shops looking like a nuclear holocaust had taken place; she believed Jesus had come back to save everyone's souls except hers which she couldn't understand as she loved God.
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Nicola Edgington felt she was in a computer simulation and had various bizarre beliefs relating to famous figures and films.
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On 7 February 2013 at the Old Bailey, Nicola Edgington was convicted by jury of the attempted murder of Clark and of the murder of Hodkin.
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Nicola Edgington referred to a recent medical report indicating no need for hospital treatment for Edgington.