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...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b, will reappear in Rotorua District Court next week, charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Details on his mother's condition were not available.

Her family asked Rotorua Hospital not to release details.

She was attacked on Sunday.

Doctors believe she may lose one eye and be blinded in the other.

Police found her screaming for help under a pile of furniture in a room with blood-spattered walls.

The finger had not been found.

A neighbour said the woman lived with her 41-year-old schizophrenic son, who she claimed was a time bomb waiting to go off.

AdvertisementAdvertisement Lakes District Health Board yesterday confirmed he was known to its mental health service and doctors were worried about his deteriorating mental health.

The board said it was investigating the incident and the man's history.

Labour's Steve Chadwick, the MP for Rotorua, said the case was very upsetting.

"I think it is tragic and I will be seeking assurances at my regular meeting with the district health board that all that should have been done was being done.

"I know they'll be doing an investigation .

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I'll follow it up because community safety is very important." Ms Chadwick is next due to meet the board in late April.

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...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b".During Monday's interview, Muhammad seemed paranoid, Dr Lewis wrote.

He claimed that his lawyers were withholding information that was important to his defence and told her: "It was never my intention to be represented by an attorney."Lewis said the sniper told her that he was innocent and his arrest "was the result of an elaborate scheme to frame him for the murders".She wrote that Muhammad told her he also believed his accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the killings, had been "fed information by the police and forced to make a false confession".Malvo is scheduled to go on trial in Montgomery county in the autumn for the same six murders.Muhammad has refused to assist his lawyers, saying that he cannot share his "secret defence strategy" with them because "they cannot be trusted".Muhammad was sentenced to death for a sniper shooting in Manassas, Virginia, after a jury found him guilty of murder, terrorism, conspiracy and illegal use of a weapon.Malvo was convicted of murder of at least two people, murder as an act of terrorism, and the use of a firearm in committing a crime.

He was sentenced to life in prison.Muhammad and Malvo were caught asleep in their modified car at a roadside rest stop.

A circular hole had been cut in the boot, through which they had been able to take aim at their targets.

Special reportUS gun violenceMapWhere the US sniper has struckCommunications with police24.10.2002: Notes, letters and messages left by the sniperTim...

...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b and had difficulties taking care of herself and her daughter.

She's been missing since 2003.

Kozlowski says, "If, some day, I do find my mom, I want to show her, 'Look what I did.

Look at what I accomplished.

Look at me, know, look at what I did." Growing up, morals and values were not instilled in Tessa, but now, with help of the Boys and Girls Club, Tessa has learned the meaning of integrity.

Shannon Lopez, the club director says, "I can see first hand what a dramatic change its had on Tessa in terms of her demeanor, all because of the club, I believe." Even though her mother isn't here to see her daughter compete, Tessa carries a missing poster of her and will have it when she gives her speech, so her mother will be with her in spirit.

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