article_snippet: The 21-year-old, who received treatment at a psychiatric facility before being transferred to Lewes Prison, was so high during the attack her son was 'not responding to pain'. '
article_snippet: her son was not reacting to pain and was described as manic and deranged,' said prosecuting counsel Amy Packham.
article_snippet: He said He had taken miaow miaow, loads of lines of it, and a lot of alcohol.
article_snippet: He appeared manic and deranged at the time.
article_snippet: He was said to have described He as a 'paedophile' to police officers and begged: 'I do not want to live. '
article_snippet: The lack of total awareness and capacity to form intent was the direct result of drug induced psychosis,' said judge David Rennie. '
article_snippet: I further recognise that in your psychotic state you inflicted life altering injuries on yourself and have taken this cocktail of drugs before without any particular side effects. '
article_snippet: David Etherington QC, representing Mann, said the defendant had become involved in taking drugs after completing the defendant GCSEs and had spent time in The Priory trying to overcome the defendant problem but had relapsed.
article_snippet: the defendant is undergoing physical and psychiatric treatment following the incident in December 2013.
article_snippet: the defendant told the defendant the defendant had had hallucinations on occasions after taking drugs but 'had never had a reaction which caused the defendant to be violent to another human being, particularly the defendant mother who the defendant loves very much and who the defendant never had any conscious desire to hurt'.
article_snippet: Mr Etherington said the defendant had relied on evidence of the attack because Mr Etherington had 'virtually no coherent memory of what happened'.
article_snippet: Mr Etherington continued: 'Looking back, in a mind that was very troubled at the time, Mr Etherington can only really rationalise it as being a suicide attempt by Mr Etherington in the grip of a delusion in which Mr Etherington mother somehow got involved.'
article_snippet: the Hove Crown Court heard that although the defendant had been 'extremely mentally unwell at the time of the offence due to a drug induced psychosis" the defendant had now recovered but remained "fragile and vulnerable.'
highlights_snippet: Charles Mann has been receiving psychiatric treatment since 'exceptional' incident .