Movie vampire 'ordered me to murder friend'
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A man accused of murdering his lifelong friend and burying his body in a shallow grave has claimed he was ordered to do it by a character in a vampire movie.
Allan Menzies, 22, told the High Court in Edinburgh he had become obsessed with the film Queen Of The Damned, in which the late US singer Aaliyah played the female vampire Akasha.
He said he watched the film around 100 times in a few weeks and that afterwards he "wanted to go out and murder people". Menzies also said Akasha would visit him in the bedroom of his home in Fauldhouse, West Lothian.
Menzies, who began giving evidence on the sixth day of his trial, said he struck a bargain with the character that he would achieve immortality if he committed murder.
"In general terms, she started off having conversations with me and it ended up that I had basically agreed with her that if I murdered people I would be rewarded in the next life," he said. "I would be made immortal in the next life - a vampire, basically."
Menzies denies killing his friend Thomas McKendrick on December 11 last year and attempting to defeat the ends of justice. The jury at the High Court in Edinburgh has been told that Menzies offered a plea of guilty to culpable homicide on the grounds of diminished responsibility, but that was rejected by the Crown.
The trial has already heard that Menzies allegedly told police he had drunk his victim's blood and ate part of his head. Menzies said Akasha told him his father was trying to poison him and that he also believed Mr McKendrick and another friend, Stuart Unwin, wanted to kill him.
"I heard it in my mind, basically, that the two of them were plotting to kill me," he said. Menzies told the court he had killed Mr McKendrick using a bowie knife, a kitchen knife and a hammer. But he said his father Thomas and Mr Unwin had been responsible for disposing of the body.
He said he had not told the police to protect his father. Menzies also claimed that Akasha had continued to visit him after the killing, but he had rejected her demands to kill more people. He said the film character had also visited him at the State Hospital at Carstairs, where he has been a patient for the past five months.
Menzies said she told him his trial was a farce because the judge and jury were working for the prosecution.
He also said he was disappointed there were no other vampires in Carstairs. Defence counsel suggestions that Menzies suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, have been rejected by psychiatrists. Dr Derek Chiswick, 58, said he believed Menzies suffered from an "anti-social personality disorder".
How come no one ever says shit like "I donated all my free time to help bums, after watching X movie"?
Some people are just fucked right from the Placenta.
