Colin Christopher Welsh awaits sentence for stabbing Elliot Guy

Published: 4 February 2010
by DAVID ST GEORGE

A DERANGED killer awaits sentence this week after admitting stabbing a proud new father to death.
Colin Christopher Welsh, who believes doctors “implanted” a device in his head to monitor his thoughts, made a brief Old Bailey appearance to admit causing the death of Elliot Guy.
But as the victim’s grieving family members listened, prosecutor Michelle Nelson said that the plea – to man­slaughter through ­diminished responsibility and not murder – was not acceptable to the Crown at present and there might be a trial.
Judge Peter Thornton, QC, adjourned the case until next month for a further psychiatric report to be prepared on unemployed Welsh, formerly from Somers Town.
Mr Guy, 27, was attacked and suffered a wound to the neck following a house party in Junction Road, Archway, on July 11 2008, and died at the Whittington Hospital. He was a ­furniture maker and skilled carpenter who grew up in the Archway and Gospel Oak areas. He was a pupil at ­Holloway School.
Just weeks before he died his partner Amy Smith gave birth to their daughter Eleanor. The family lived in Ealing.
Welsh’s trial has already been put off on two occasions to give psychiatrists more time to assess him.