Wealthy Art Collector’s Son Detained Indefinitely After Brutal Attack on Housekeeper

Maximillian Bourne, 26, was sentenced to a secure psychiatric hospital following a violent stabbing and strangulation of a live-in maid at his family’s Chelsea home.

• Maximillian Bourne, suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, attacked housekeeper Joselia Pereira Do Nascimento with a kitchen knife and strangled her, leaving her permanently scarred.
• The attack occurred on February 25, 2024, at the multimillion-pound Chelsea home where Bourne and Ms. Nascimento were the only residents for months prior.
• Bourne was found unfit to stand trial for attempted murder, and a jury determined he committed the act; he was sentenced to indefinite detention in a secure psychiatric hospital.
• The court heard that Bourne exhibited erratic behavior before the attack, including sleeping on the bathroom floor and speaking to himself, and called 999 afterward claiming he had stabbed a 'demon woman.'
• Judge Gregory Perrins criticized Bourne’s wealthy family for offering no support to Ms. Nascimento, who now relies on charity and suffers from PTSD and physical pain from her injuries.

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