THIS is the moment a teen called 999 saying "there's been a murder" before his gran was found stabbed in the bath.
Pietro Addis, 17, stabbed his grandmother Sue to death as she lay in the bath at her home, a court has heard.
In a brutal attack, the teen stabbed his 69-year-old gran at least 17 times, causing fatal injuries to her chest and neck.
The then-17-year-old's 999 call was today played back in court.
In it he tells the operator: "I’m calling to turn myself in.
"There’s been a murder."
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The call operator questions Addis on who's been murdered and he replies: "My grandma."
He then asks the then 17-year-old where she is and he responds: "In the bath."
Addis sits on the phone in silence, before the call operator asks: "How long ago did this happen?"
When the teen says 20 minutes and the frantic call operator can then be heard saying to staff: "Can you call me an ambulance? Tell them to hurry up please."
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Addis is later asked: "When you say your nan's dead, how certain are you of that?"
The teen responds: "100 per cent."
In court today Addis' drug use was greatly discussed – as was Sue's concerns with her grandson's increased cannabis use.
Sue, the owner of popular Brighton restaurants Donatello’s and Pinocchio’s, was said to have wanted to get her grandson psychiatric help, too.
The killing happened at the 69-year-old's home in Brighton on January 7, 2021, during the third Covid-19 lockdown.
Addis, now 19, has admitted killing his grandmother but denies murder.
He is currently on trial at Lewes Crown Court.
In court today officers described the gruesome scene they were confronted with when they arrived at the home.
PC Richard Hall said he entered the house and arrested Addis before making his way upstairs to the bathroom.
He told the court: "I saw a Mrs Addis laid in the bath. I rushed over whereby then I immediately realised she was dead.
"She was laying upright in the bath with her head tilted down towards her chest.
"I could see several puncture wounds to the front of her body."
He told court there was only a small amount of water in the bath and it was stained with her blood.
PC Hall said: "It was red. There were lots of torn-up pieces of newspaper floating in the water.
"There was blood spattering around the bath. There was a knife on the floor. It was quite a substantial kitchen knife.
"I took hold of her right arm placing it across her chest and asked if she could hear me.
"Her fingers were blue and she was still quite warm to touch."
'LOTS OF PUNCTURE WOUNDS'
He told the jury he and a second officer move Sue and saw a larger wound on her abdomen.
The jury was also shown body-worn camera footage recorded by PC Annabella Perfect who also arrived on the scene.
In it Addis is shown wearing a white hoody and gives one word answers questions from officers.
The then-17-year-old gives his name and date of birth and is asked by officers where the weapon he used is located.
Earlier the court heard Pietro had been diagnosed with ADHD and had been prescribed medication for the condition.
But, as well as taking the prescription medication, he had also begun regularly smoking cannabis and taking anti-depressants.
His behaviour was said to have deteriorated.
'SUFFERING PARANOIA'
The teen began to skip college and often failed to turn up for work at the family restaurant.
The court heard he was regularly smoking one or two cannabis joints an evening, three or four times a week.
The teenager had been living with his father, Leo, and his stepmother during lockdown, but after a massive argument he moved out and went to stay with his grandmother.
His grandmother had told friends, Sue Eastman and Denise Taylor, she was increasingly concerned about his cannabis use.
She also wrote to Dr Daphne Keen, the psychologist who diagnosed his ADHD in 2018, that her grandson was continually smoking "weed", which when combined with his drugs had made him listless and slow.
Sue told her: "He is suffering paranoia and we are all getting annoyed with him rather than helping.
"He still says he can’t do anything without the Elvanse [his ADHD drug] but with the weed as well he has become impossible to reason with.
"He just wants to sit in his room all day and it is an effort to get him to do anything.”
SEARCHING FOR 'TREATMENT'
As well as using cannabis, Addis was also taking Xanex, an anti-depressant.
Friend, George Cameron, noticed a huge change in the teenager in the months leading up to the killing.
He told police his friend had become "negative and despondent" and had also become quite paranoid.
In the days leading up to the alleged murder Addis had also been acting very strangely.
He had begun banging on his grandmother’s bedroom door at night telling her he loved her.
Rossano Scamardella KC, prosecuting, said that on the day of her death Sue returned from wokr around 4pm and began searching online for treatment for her grandson.
He said: "She was researching ‘the Priory, Ticehurst’, which is a private clinic/hospital for addiction and mental health treatment.
"She also searched ‘Brighton to Ticehurst by car’ – presumably to see how far away it was.
"Police enquiries of the Priory indicate that no enquiry was in fact received from Mrs Addis, but it seems as though she was considering in-patient treatment for her grandson at a specialist centre."
'ALWAYS SUPPORTIVE OF PIETRO'
The court heard THC, the major active constituent of cannabis, and its breakdown product carboxy-THC, were found in Addis’ blood and urine.
Their presence indicates that he had taken cannabis some time before providing the same samples.
However, they can stay in the body for some time and there is no way of knowing when he last used cannabis.
Wearing a white shirt, red tie, blue tank top jumper and dark trousers, Addis sat with his eyes down as he listened to proceedings in court.
Denise Taylor, who had known Sue for 25 years, regularly met up and spent most Wednesday evenings together.
She had coffee with Sue on the day of her death after she popped into Donatells’s restaurant while walking with her husband, Steve.
In a statement, she said: "Sue said: ‘We’re having a lot of trouble with Pietro.’’
However, she spoke to Addis, who was in the restaurant, and felt he seemed normal "like a quiet, sombre teenager".
She continued: "Sue has expressed concerns about Pietro using cannabis in the past.
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"She was always supportive of Pietro. She was his go-to person and she was always there for him."
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