A mother staggered to a neighbour for help with a knife sticking out of her stomach after being stabbed by her mentally-ill son.

Paranoid schizophrenic Nathan Davies attacked his mother, Lorraine, because he wrongly thought she was poisoning him.

Davies, 26, of Farmers Close, Witney, was ordered to be detained indefinitely to protect the public.

A psychiatrist at Oxford Crown Court yesterday agreed that Davies should not have been allowed to live with his mother.

Davies has been detained at the Littlemore Hospital since the attack in August last year.

In a statement read to the court, Mrs Davies said her son had not been taking his medication. On the day he stabbed her she had slipped some medicine into his coffee while he was on the phone.

She said: "Nathan came into the room and said something about the Tenth Millennium Police. The next thing I remember being punched and kicked." Mrs Davies said her son then left the room.

"The next thing I heard him shouting was 'she's put something in my coffee'.

"I could see him come back into the room. He thrust a knife into my abdomen with force. I thought 'Oh my God he's stabbed me'."

Mrs Davies then staggered to the next door neighbour's house with the knife sticking from her stomach.

She said: "I don't feel safe and my sleep is erratic. I want Nathan to get medical help and I don't want him to get the opportunity to do this to anyone else."

Recorder Geoffrey Tattersall rejected a plea by Annette Henry, defending, to place Davies under a supervised discharge order and ruled that he should only ever be discharged from hospital into a specialised hostel.

The order is overseen by the Home Secretary who must approve any move to release Davies from hospital.

Mr Tattersall said he made the order to protect the public "from serious harm".

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