Man who attacked housekeeper given hospital order

The son of an art collector who "viciously and brutally" stabbed and strangled a housekeeper at his family's multimillion-pound home in west London has been sentenced to a hospital order.

Maximillian Bourne attacked Joselia Pereira Do Nascimento at the luxury home in Justice Walk, Chelsea, in February last year, before calling 999 and telling the operator he stabbed a "demon woman" and was a "nice boy from Chelsea".

The 26-year-old was charged with attempted murder but was deemed unfit to stand trial due to his mental health. A jury at Southwark Crown Court on Monday determined he was responsible for the attack.

Judge Gregory Perrins said Bourne would stay in a secure hospital "indefinitely".

Judge Perrins said live-in housekeeper Ms Nascimento had been watching TV in her room when Bourne knocked on her door and told her to come out on the evening of 25 February 2024.

"He then viciously and brutally attacked her, stabbing her repeatedly with a kitchen knife to her head and her body," the judge said.

"She was attacked without warning and without provocation in the home in which she lived and worked. It is only through sheer good fortune that she survived the attack."

The court heard Ms Nascimento managed to get free and lock herself in a bathroom, before finding her phone and contacting a friend.

In a written statement previously read in court, the housekeeper said: "I told him I have a daughter and I pleaded with him to stop.

"He told me that it was because I was evil, but we had never had an argument or a disagreement."

Judge Perrins told the court Ms Nascimento had permanent scars causing her "intense" pain and she suffered with mental health issues including post-traumatic stress disorder and panic attacks.

The court heard Bourne suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and that he has not responded to treatment so far.

Judge Perrins said Bourne would not be released unless a specialist tribunal considered it appropriate.

"Were he ever to be released it would be under strict conditions and a high degree of oversight," he said.

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