Young rugby player paranoid on skunk stabbed his mother then hacked off his own penis

A TEENAGE rugby player cut off his own penis and stabbed his mother while high on skunk cannabis, his father has revealed while calling for the drug’s legal status to be reclassified.

The father, named only as Nick to protect the identity of his son who is trying to rebuild his life, is backing Lord Nicholas Monson’s campaign to have skunk raised from Class B to Class A while decriminalising the traditional, weaker form of cannabis entirely.

Lord Monson launched his campaign after the suicide of his 21-yearold son, Rupert Green, become addicted to skunk.

Nick told BBC Radio 5 Live, his boy, a county rugby player, started smoking “weed” at 16 before switching to skunk out of “boredom”. That was the beginning of what Nick said his son would who had describe as “two and a half years of hell” which culminated in a psychotic episode. He went from a “very bright, bubbly lad” to being a “waste of space”.

He became delusional and paranoid and started sleeping “with a tennis racket in his bed because he thought people were living in the walls”. One night he awoke ranting and raving, attacked his mother and inflicted “incredibly deep self harm”, Nick said.

“It was absolutely devastating, you can’t imagine anything of that nature... the whole episode was just surreal.”

Nick’s son was in a mental institute for around six months and spent almost two years in prison after the incident. He has undergone surgery, and will have more operations to repair the damage, though it’s unsure whether he can ever have children.