British schizophrenic, 31, who killed his OAP mother in sickening acid attack at her Algarve home is sent to a high-security hospital

• Louis Yates, 31, is expected to be held between three and 16 years for the crime
• He killed mum Christine, 68, by slitting her throat and covering her in acid
• Judges at an Algarve court in Portimao said he wasn’t criminally responsible

A British man who made a grisly court murder confession has been told he will kept in a high-security prison hospital until he is no longer considered a danger to society.

Paranoid schizophrenic Louis Yates, 31, is expected to be held between three and 16 years after admitting to battering his OAP mum and slitting her throat before dousing her body in acid and defiling it by sticking cigarette butts in her nostril and genitals.

Three judges at a court in the Algarve resort of Portimao ruled on Tuesday he had killed doting mum Christine, 68, but was not criminally responsible for his actions.

Louis Yates, 31, confessed in a Portuguese courtroom today to killing his mother Christine, 68, at their £1.7million home in the Algarve in August last year. Pictured his father Roger and brother Anthony

Yates was not in court to hear the decision.

The sick Brit claimed in the same court at the start of his trial on May 7 he thought his mum was the devil and he was Jesus and the CIA had ordered him to hit her ‘as hard as he could’ while he was high on drugs.

He accused his dad Roger of causing his psychosis by poisoning him with LSD he alleged he put into the water tank of their £1.7 million home close to Lagoa on the Algarve in a bizarre courtroom speech.

But he insisted he now regretted killing his mum and understood what he had done.

Speaking impassively about the murder, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire-born Yates told the lead judge Antonieta Nascimento he now accepted his mum was not the devil.

Asked if he regretted what he had done, he said: ‘Yes’ before adding when questioned about his feelings on her death and its consequences: ‘It’s terrible. For many years she was my best friend.’

The self-confessed killer’s older brother Anthony, a 51-year-old London-based economist, told the court in an emotional statement in which he admitted to suffering from ‘repeated anxiety attacks’: ‘It’s difficult to put the impact of what happened into words.

‘It has also been difficult learning the exact details of what happened to my mum and trying to get to a point where I don’t think about it anymore.

‘I have two young children aged 11 and eight and I worry a lot about them finding out what happened sooner than would be good for them.’

Roger said his son’s problems began when he was around 18 and were down to a combination of ‘excessive alcohol and powerful skunk cannabis’

Expat Mrs Yates left an inheritance worth £2.6 million which included the Delaware firm that owned the Algarve villa where she was killed.

A decision on a compensation claim of just over £50,000 from the killer’s brother over Mrs Yates’ death has been handed to a civil court.

The gate outside the Portuguese villa where Louis Yates attacked his mother. A neighbour dialled 999 after going to the villa later the same day to check on the pair

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