WARNING: This story contains graphic details of violence.
A man has been found not criminally responsible for violently killing his girlfriend more than two years ago after court heard he attacked her in their New Westminster, B.C., home during an “intensely or highly psychotic” episode shortly after leaving hospital of his own accord.
Andywele Carlan Mullings, then 42, killed Emily Appleyard with a hammer in their kitchen on March 2, 2021, a little more than an hour after leaving Lions Gate Hospital despite a nurse believing he needed urgent medical attention.
“This case involves deeply tragic circumstances,” B.C. Supreme Court Martha Devlin wrote in her decision Friday.
“I am mindful that this
