AN ICU nurse who was stabbed in the neck with a spoon by Watlington woods murder accused Daniel O’Hara Wright said he would ‘never forget’ the man’s face.

The 24-year-old, who was being treated on the John Radcliffe Hospital intensive care ward last November after allegedly killing his mum a week earlier, was said to have been clutching a ‘silver spoon’ he’d been given to eat lunch earlier in the day.

"With no warning he launched himself towards me, stabbing me in the left side of the neck above my collarbone," nurse Sergio Juarez said in a statement read to Oxford Crown Court on Wednesday.

"I'll never forget his face as he did so and can only describe it as the face of the devil.

"I honestly believed he was trying to kill me.”

O’Hara Wright was said to have been laughing hysterically as he launched the attack.

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He turned the spoon on himself but a hard plastic brace prevented him from stabbing himself in the neck.

Bed watch police officer PC Lydia Parker described in a statement how the defendant 'flung his right arm towards Juarez'.

Having previously been calm, his demeanour 'changed dramatically' after midday, with the defendant talking in unknown languages.

After the attack on the nurse, the three police officers around the bed went to restrain O'Hara Wright. The patient 'passed wind and proceeded to defecate', she said.

The day before the alleged spoon stabbing on November 2, O’Hara Wright was said to have spat faeces into the face of one of the police officers guarding him in hospital.

O'Hara Wright, of Uxbridge, denies murder. The trial continues.

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