Victim of killer Sebastian Mercante remains in hospital after his mother’s murder

Mar 10 2010 by Kevin Core, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A MAN who was stabbed attempting to defend his mother from a deranged knifeman remains in hospital.

Andrew Fields, 36, suffered knife wounds to his neck as he attempted to disarm Sebastian Mercante, who struck at the family home in Bradley, at around 6.30 on Friday evening.

Mr Fields’ wounds are not thought to be life threatening, but his mother, 66-year-old Carol Berry was killed in the attack.

Mercante, a 40-year-old Argentinian-born body builder from Tenerife, jetted into the UK on Friday, reportedly after his ex-partner Claire Tootill had asked for a divorce.

A former Holmfirth High pupil, she had gone on to study biology at Manchester Metropolitan University before meeting Mercante abroad.

He went to the Bradley Road address and launched the horrific attack.