Tristan Roberts, who expressed misogynistic views and had fascination with American Psycho, carefully planned attack
An 18-year-old man who expressed misogynistic views and had a fascination with the horror film American Psycho has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years and six months for killing his mother with a hammer.
Tristan Roberts carefully planned the crime, researching methods of killing and how to avoid being caught before buying potential weapons such as knives, hammers and an axe.
He started attacking his mother, Angela Shellis, 45, at their home in Prestatyn, north Wales, late in the evening of 23 October 2025. In the early hours, he persuaded her to leave the house and said he would take her for medical help.
The two walked through a nature reserve, where he took a hammer from a rucksack and killed Shellis, a teaching assistant at a high school, by hitting her on the head multiple times. He recorded the attacks at home and at the nature reserve on a dictaphone.
