UK — Hambledon, England. A teen callously murdered his mother by strangling her to unconsciousness and stabbing her 118 times. He was found dead four days later in a secure mental health hospital. Now the teen’s father says the blame for the untimely deaths of his son and ex should fall on the shoulders of authorities who repeatedly placed the ‘nonbinary’ teen in sex-segregated mental health units.
17-year-old Rowan Thompson, a private school pupil who changed his name from Ben when he began identifying as ‘genderless’, visited his mother, 50-year-old speech therapist Joanna, for the weekend at her village home. The teen had recently gone to live with his father, Marc, a magician.
Mother and son engaged in “stressful” conversations about his living arrangements. The teen decided his mother was “controlling and over-bearing.”
The following day, 1 July 2019, the mother and son went for a morning jog. When they returned home, the teen “felt strange,” and began strangling his mother. Joanna Thompson fell to the floor, and Rowan Thompson strangled her until she was rendered unconscious.
“10 or 15 minutes later,” the teen returned to find his mother still breathing, and used knives to stab her 64 times in the neck, 38 times in the forehead and 16 times in the arm.
At 12:45 PM, the teen called the emergency number and reported in what Coroner Jason Pegg would later describe as a “calm, unemotional and quite ordinary manner”:
“I’ve just killed my mum. I need someone to arrest me as that’s what you do and an ambulance would be nice. I strangled her and I’ve been stabbing her with various knives and whatnot. My younger brother is at school, he’s due back later tonight. … She’s not breathing… bring a body-bag or whatever you do. I’m 99.9 per cent sure she’s not breathing.“
He “made sure” her breathing stopped, the teen told the operator, and “put the knives in the dishwasher just in case.”
The arresting officer found the teen “extremely calm and composed” and “more concerned about his cat.”
Rowan Thompson was placed in a secure mental health facility. His trial was set for 7 October 2020. Four days before the date, he was found dead.
Police said Rowan Thompson’s death is not suspicious. The inquest into the teen’s death is scheduled to take place next year.
The youth had a history of suicide attempts and depressive bouts, and had spent prior stints in mental health hospitals following the suicide of his mother’s brother.
Marc Thompson insisted Rowan Thompson was “troubled,” but never aggressive, loved his mother and planned to become an architect. He said the system had failed Rowan Thompson by always placing the teen in single-sex units, despite the teen’s ‘genderless’ identity.
He claims two psychiatrists thought the youth “mentally incapacitated.”
Psychiatrist Dr John Sandford told the inquest into Joanna Thompson’s death that Rowan Thompson had minor autism, but he found no indication of “abnormal mental functioning.”
The late Joanna Thompson was described by her sister Sophie Rugge-Price as “shy, gentle and kind,” “always thinking about others” and “devoted to both her sons.”
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A private school pupil who switched genders strangled his mother and stabbed her 118 times before making a chilling 999 call to tell police ‘bring a body-bag’, an inquest heard today.
How does a psychiatrist not find any indication of abnormal mental function?!
The psychiatrist appeared to be indicating that the young man was not mentally ill, but instead, a person who willfully committed murderous violence.
Ooh, I read a report about the nuts and bolts of the murder a while ago – but the details render it so much more chilling. Such malice a forethought, what with the claim to be “genderless” so nobody could detain him in the prelude to the event.
The poor woman. She knew, I suspect.
If he’s genderless (because gender doesn’t exist) then surely he can go into a specialist unit for people who are either male or female? Pick one and put him in it. Don’t blame the NHS for not having dedicated units for unicorns and special people.
Sounds like the lad did us all a favour.
Transgender advocates say “there are as many genders are people.” It also means, to be compliant with this theory, we would need to provide as many restrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, public showers, shelters and prisons as there are humans, and could only assign one human to each of these nearly infinite facilities in order to respect each person’s felt gender or genders.
Yeah they’re just supposed to pull a ‘genderless’ facility out of their collective backsides so this one single ultra special individual can feel validated in what is clearly their madness.
Apparently ‘genderless’ males keep the violence pattern of males even when they claim the identity of null. What’s the point of being genderless if you’re just a bog standard bloke?
I suspect that he merely made the claim to be “genderless” so the local mental health team couldn’t detain him (due to trans guidance) – before he’d committed a violent crime. I think his poor mum knew, or at least suspected that she was living with a psychopath. The poor, careworn looking woman…
Sometimes men will perform, or attempt to perform an ad hoc castration on themselves. They’re known as “nullos” in the mental health and criminology world. If successful, they will indeed be rendered “agender” in a way, and it does indeed have an effect upon the rate of violent crimes committed towards others. Of course, that’s a very different thing.
No, one mouthbreathing male moron on youtube doesn’t mean that asexuality isn’t a thing.
I’ll be 40 this year and I ‘dated’ a guy for 25 days in high school and never did it again. The only people who have touched me sexually have done so without my consent. I’ve never had sex and, knock on wood, I never will.
Asexuality is about whether you desire a sexual relationship with another person, not solely about how much a dude claiming to be ace jerks off. That’s just an absurd argument against asexuality.
I will admit that I think that a truly asexual male is probably pretty rare, at least much rarer than an asexual woman.
And the identity pride parade flags and gendhurr symbolz with speshul kolorz are just stupid. Those spawned off tumblr fan culture and need to die in a fire.
I think it’s the difference between just being yourself, like you are, and those who collect various labels because they have no personality, depth, achievements, interests, hobbies or goals, which most people are known for. I have been looking at profiles on Twitter, and many have ‘preferred pronouns’ and a lengthy assortment of other identity and kink labels. They are very bland and boring individuals who all seem to be as alike as if they had been mass-produced on an assembly line.
I do realize that your question is probably rhetorical – but of all the people I’ve met who claim such gender identities as “non-binary” or “agender”, even the “asexual/Ace” sexual identity, it almost always seems to mean very little outside of a desire to really just be seen as someone with more than a threadbare personality which just consists of your standard male or female stereotypes. Adopting a “non-binary identity” has rarely seemed to have any concrete meaning (even if it’s used by some women as an excuse for indulging in procedures which seem to indicate self-hatred &/or trauma such as bilateral mastectomy).
It’s really often just a conceit that the person is something special, generally. It’s seen by many as a sign of the pretentious, even though it’s clearly not socially acceptable to challenge the veracity or meaning of these identities.
I highly doubt that’s enlightened anyone and it probably seems uncharitable, sorry!
Also, I’m sorry that I didn’t see your comment about nullos etc. when I made mine earlier for some reason 😬
“even the “asexual/Ace” sexual identity, it almost always seems to mean very little outside of a desire to really just be seen as someone with more than a threadbare personality”
As an asexual woman, who has been that way since forever, that is a little overreaching. Being asexual isn’t the same as claiming to be non-binary or agender. It’s not a gender Identity. I have a biological sex, female, with no gender identity, I just do not desire a sexual relationship with anyone.
Anyone claiming it’s a spectrum or changes throughout life is lying. It’s as ingrained as any sexual orientation.
Now, grant you, this wouldn’t matter if the men I had as friends would stop treating me and all their female friends just as potential parking spots for their dicks.
Stern, I’d like to clarify that I mean many of those who now claim to be asexual in today’s “scene” make this claim spuriously – or at least, this has been my experience both in real life and online..
In fact, there’s a perfect example to illustrate this to be found on YouTube. I can’t remember his name offhand, but it’s probably best I don’t mention it given what I’m going to disclose. He has a massive following of confused & vulnerable seeming young people and kids, he’s literally fashioned being “Ace” into an “identity” including a particular uniform of wearing the colours of the Ace flag. He claims that it’s a particular sexuality – which isn’t an argument I want to get into here. None of this would bother me at all if it weren’t for the fact that he also claims that masturbating often is “perfectly normal” for those who consider themselves to be asexual…
Clearly, this man is not asexual. He obviously likes having a vulnerable audience who he’s grooming to defend him online and whatnot and it seems to me that he just isn’t an interesting human being as he never discusses anything that’s not related to his alleged lack of interest in sex. I think in his case in particular, it raises many red flags. That’s all.
I don’t doubt asexuality is real, ie an authentic life experience for a minority. The reason people are sceptical toward the concept is precisely because the alphabet movement has coopted that population into its allyship/oppressed class mosaic of “identities”. Just like they copted the issues of intersex people.
I strongly suspect that many of those publicly professing being a/s are actually just people with a myriad of issues like social awkwardness who’ve latched onto asexuality as a convenient narrative of their lack of relationships/failure to navigate romantic development as teens. Modern western culture treats sexuality as such a commodity-fetish – those who fail to conform to/attain the standard lifescript (getting your first girl/boyfriend/falling in love/losing your virginity) are shamed and look for passably logical explanations for their discomfort. Political movements swoop in providing such a convenient narrative and off they go carrying flags for the movement.
I noticed this dynamic immediately when I first discovered the incel/mgotw subcultures. In their case the convenient explanation they are handed is that women are the cause of their unhappiness so its OK to hate them/troll/humiliate them etc. So they are granted social license to behave in ways that would ordinarily be deemed abhorrent. The exact license the TRA movement has been handed.
There are as many genders as people because we all have a uniqure personality. What we do have are two sexes along with sone with genetic abnormalities.
I’m not sorry: A male/boy with the capacity to ‘calmly’ murder his mother does NOT need to be placed where he can harm other females.
Maybe, just maybe, not confronting his delusions about his gender/natal sex let the mental illness get worse.
What does a “genderless” person see when they look at others? Can he/she pick out the other “genderless”, and how? If told the others around him/her were also ungendered, would he/she be able to tell? This is so unbelievably stupid. His gender is murderer!
Gender is a quantum phenomenon – a Schrodinger’s identity. A person’s gender exists in a superposition of all possible states and its wavefunction collapses into a concrete state only when it interacts with the enviroment. The collapsed state is always whatever is convenient to that individual at the particular time.
When requiring an excuse for killing your own mother it takes on the genderless state. When going to prison for murdering her it takes on the transfeminine state – demanding placement in a women’s institution.
These stories will be what bursts the dam, sadly at the cost of lives like this lady who looks like she was a kind and giving person.
Both son and father look disturbed. Dad is a magician, while son is a unicorn and both pathologically hate their ex/mother. My dear Freud.
I saw this immediately but didn’t want to be too mean for pointing it out. Anecdotally I’ve noticed a pattern of parent/child “gender identification” particularly reading some really sad transwidow stories.
Its amazing how the human brain has 300000 years of danger recognition programmed into it, and yet the ideologues think that all this could be pretended away by claiming “inclusion”.
First, they gaslighted us all by saying “it never happens” that males who self-identify as women or non-binary display male patterns of criminality, such as physical and sexual violence.
When such a case would make the news, they would gaslight us by insisting it was a fluke, a rare incident.
When we create spaces dedicated to showing the statistics and examples to emphasize that this is, in fact, a pattern, that males who self-identify as women or non-binary do not have a lower rate of criminality than other male persons, we were told we were making it up. Fortunately, we always include links to mainstream sources at the bottom of every article. Now they deflect by insisting that the act of gathering proof of what they said “never happens” is “hate.”
So, it’s hateful to not just give them what they want without facts, question or discussion, regardless of proven harm to the human rights of others. What is never hateful, of course, is men who self-identify as women committing physical and sexual violence at a rate not lower than other men, and then getting rewarded with access to female victims in prisons or mental institutions, or receiving little or no prison time because there’s “nowhere to safely place them” or “it’s too cruel to imprison sufferers of gender dysphoria.”
It’s obvious that gender identity ideologues like Liam Kirk Fifer, who self-identifies as male, are desperate to silence those who challenge their narrative of ‘gentle’ male women who ‘just want to pee.’ Liam had nothing to say to her friend who described being institutionalized following a suicide attempt, or the horror that descended over the entire female mental health unit at the possibility that a violent, male, ‘non-binary transfemme’ could be placed with them (because he was threatening to commit suicide otherwise). Another cold, dead heart. In the Twilight Zone…
By “is men who self-identify as women committing physical and sexual violence at a rate not lower than other men” you surely mean sexual violence over twice the rate of other incarcerated males? Didn’t the BBC do some research and then try and fudge the numbers to make TiMs look better?
And yeah. A male caught fucking a dog really doesn’t need to be in a female ward. He needs to be nowhere near anyone else, let alone someone smaller than he is. That’s asking to let females get raped by a psycho. o___o;; Nice empathy there, Liam….
But,you know… WE’RE the ones Liam thinks need to be reeducated to toe the wokerati line, lest we be labeled bigots….
Why in god’s name do TRAs always care more about the rapist and not the victims?? Cold dead hear and all, but seriously. Something is wrong with them.
Right, studies and statistics from various nations (Sweden, UK, US) show that trans-identifying men’s rate and pattern of physical violence is the same as other men’s. Some studies like the Swedish longitudinal shows that their pattern and rate of sexual violence matches other men’s, but the rate of transgender-identifying males in UK prisons for sexual violence suggests that they may actually have an exponentially higher rate of sexual violence than other men. Sadly, we will find out in coming years as more data comes out worldwide. Whether it’s statistically about the same or far higher, we will find out the hard way.
Honestly, they’re mentally ill pornsick narcissists. I wouldn’t be surprised if their level of sexual violence was higher than the general population.
Yes. It’s glaringly obvious to me that the vast majority of these people who claim these “special” identities do so largely in order to manipulate others, that they are people with cluster b personality disorders. Further, they and their obedient supporters like Mr. Kirk Fifer are, to a one, dictatorial creeps with little or no concern for the welfare of others, particularly if they happen to be women or girls.
Of course Diana, you have already illustrated this point abundantly but it’s quite remarkable how predictable these men are in their response to any woman who dares to mention the stark impact that society’s “acceptance” of this gender identity stuff has on us. Simply heartless. Needless to say, should Mr. Kirk Fifer be caught in the commission of a crime against a woman or girl, he will almost certainly immediately claim to identify as one too.
Liam Kirk Fifer hardly needs me to come to their defense, but I can assure you that Liam is not a “dictatorial creep with little or no concern for the welfare of others.” To the contrary: Liam is intelligent, with a great heart and compassion for people. (Liam did not direct me to this site and is not aware I’m commenting.) Now arguably, a father is biased: I loved Liam even before Liam came into this world and I held Liam on that very occasion. If you disagree with something Liam has written, or you think Liam should have said something other than or in addition to what they did say, then by all means, present your case. But I find it odd and not a little hypocritical that on a website that promotes respect for people’s humanity, it should be seen as OK to so harshly name-call and judge Liam, especially based on a single social media post. Arguing ad hominem undercuts your response.
I find it quite rich that you have come to lecture other people on humanity, when you and Liam, the daughter you raised, have displayed no regard for the humanity of others. You raised a daughter mired in unresolved disgust and hatred for herself, which she projects out onto all others of her sex.
The way Ms Fifer responded to her own friend who recounted a traumatic experience was despicable. Her reaction (lack thereof) to the distressed women was despicable. The cold indifference displayed is abnormal and asocial.
Rather than seeking to get your daughter therapy for her confusion and self-rejection, which often most stems from such trauma as rape, sexual harassment, child sexual abuse, severe peer bullying or rejection, you are enabling this unhealthy mindset by referring to this one daughter as “they/them,” thereby feeding this unhealthy mindset and need to identify out of her body to be set above others and above the selfhood she seeks to escape. Yes, your daughter is one person, a female, and needs to find the grace to respect her own humanity and others’ humanity before feeling entitled to receive from others the basic respect she cruelly withholds.
You should have focused on getting her therapy, and maybe you wouldn’t now need to focus on Googling her name and reframing the damage she’s creating to other girls and women. It’s not too late to recommend therapy to your daughter.
Good day.
That person identifies as male. Self-hating woman who hates or is indifferent to other women.
Wow, Diana.
I apologize for my previous remark. Personally, I’m even more distressed by those women who choose to attempt to identify out of their oppression as females than I am by the men who fetishize our oppression but try to identify into it regardless. Ms. Fifer probably isn’t a dictatorial creep, just someone who has been allowed to wallow in a profound feeling of self-hatred even by those closest to her. So sad.
what is it with the magicians and wiccans I keep seeing in transgenderism? oh yeah, fantasy worlds.
Can’t be any ‘occult’ without the ‘cult’ bit, am I right.