Young woman ‘covered in blood’ charged with murder after 65-year-old man found dead in Gilberton unit
A 65-year-old man found stabbed to death at a Gilberton unit complex has been remembered by neighbours as his female alleged killer faced court.
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The woman arrested over what police believe was a bloody, fatal stabbing of a 65-year-old Gilberton man has been remanded in mental health custody – and her identity has been suppressed.
On Tuesday afternoon, the 30-year-old woman appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court by phone link to an undisclosed medical facility.
She has yet to plead to a number of charges, including murder and property damage.
The charged woman was arrested following a struggle with police, after allegedly smashing through the back door of a Walkerville Tce home — which sits next to the Bentzen Court unit complex — just before 7pm on Monday.
On the same evening, paramedics were called to a unit inside Bentzen Court after 65-year-old Andrew Sorby-Adams’s carer requested a welfare check.
They found Mr Sorby-Adams with multiple stab wounds. Tragically, he could not be saved.
Acting Superintendent Damien Eichner said after being taken into custody, the woman was taken to hospital with superficial injuries, and was sedated.
In a bedside court hearing, her counsel made no application for bail, but asked she be remanded into the custody of the state’s Forensic Mental Health Service.
Such an order would see her held in a secure mental health facility rather than a jail cell.
“There was a preliminary report provided that did not support (this) but there has since been further information come to light,” she said.
A forensic mental health spokeswoman addressed the court and confirmed that was the case.
“(The woman) has just been assessed for a forensic inpatient treatment order ... she requires further evaluation by psychiatrists,” she said.
An SA Police prosecutor asked the woman’s name and image be suppressed for at least four weeks to permit the gathering of evidence from potential eyewitnesses.
She said officers needed time to deal with the “large and complex” case that included toxicology and post-mortem reports,police bodycam footage and audio from a Triple-0 call.
The court imposed the suppression order, remanded the woman in mental health detention and ordered she face court again in October.
People who knew the women told The Advertiser they beliebed she had appeared distressed in the days leading up to the incident.
“She was facing eviction, so she had a lot on her plate. She was devastated,” a neighbour said.
“She was living on her own, but she’s got friends.”
Long-time residents Jan and John said they had been in the living room watching TV when a woman jumped their fence and turned up on their back porch.
They said she was “covered in blood” and wasn’t wearing any pants.
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