A 16-year-old army cadet accused of murder calmly told police "I've killed my stepfather", a video played to a jury has shown.

Police arrived at the home of Vladimir Ivashikin after he called 999 and told them he had hit Dr Barry Hounsome over the head with a hammer "many times" and stabbed him with a knife, a crown court heard.

Footage from a body-worn camera shows the teenager, wearing a black fleece, telling a police officer that there was someone "talking" to him who told him to "attack him and kill him".

He then told the officer that the lecturer's body was "just behind the door" before asking him if he should remove plasters and a glove from his hand which were covering cuts.

The footage shown to jurors at Southampton Crown Court was filmed shortly after Ivashikin launched the brutal attack on Dr Hounsome at their home in Gosport, in October 2018.

The scene of the incident in Southcroft Road, GosportThe scene of the incident in Southcroft Road, Gosport (Image: Solent News Agency)

He had been diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and after pleading guilty in 2019 to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility was sent by a judge to a secure hospital.

But in 2022 he allegedly admitted to a nurse he had "fabricated" his symptoms and that he had killed his stepfather because he had wondered What it would be like".

The now 22-year-old is on trial for murder.

Footage shows Ivashikin outside his home wearing a glove covering one hand and tells the officer "I've killed my stepfather".



After being arrested, Ivashikin told doctors he had been "unable to resist" the voices which had commanded him to kill his stepfather, jurors were told.

But the court heard he had not mentioned hearing voices before and that the three doctors who diagnosed him as suffering from mental illness relied on him honestly telling them what was going on 'inside his head'.

In May 2019, after admitting manslaughter, he was formally found not guilty of murder - and was sent by a judge at Winchester Crown Court to Ravenswood House Hospital, in Fareham, for treatment.

But, the murder trial heard that in February 2022 Ivashikin told a nurse at the hospital, Jacob Butcher, that he had recently "fabricated" symptoms to get transferred to a different ward.

He is alleged to have said: "The truth is out now... the game is finally up.”

The court heard that following this conversation and further interviews with doctors, specialists decided Ivashikin was not mentally unwell leading to his re-arrest and being charged in January 2023.

The scene of the incident in Southcroft Road, GosportThe scene of the incident in Southcroft Road, Gosport (Image: Solent News Agency)

Psychiatric evidence read to the court said the 22-year-old has now developed a 'delusional belief system' involving artificial intelligence.

He claims he has been receiving information by an organisation - called 'The Makers' - who hope to create a world which is run by machinery.

Ivashikin - who says that what he told hospital staff in 2022 is false - denies murder but has pleaded guilty to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility.

Health science expert Dr Hounsome previously worked at the University of Southampton and at Bangor University, Wales, conducting studies into diseases including Parkinson's and dementia.

The trial continues.