A teenager has admitted stabbing his grandmother to death while high on mephedrone - then stealing her TV to swap for his next fix, a court heard.
Lewis Dale, 17, also repeatedly stabbed his grandfather as he and his wife lay sleeping in their bedroom. Jurors were told that the horrific 2am attack left Irene Dale, 78, dead at the scene.
The jury at Hull Crown Court heard that Mrs Dale shouted 'What are you doing?' to her grandson as he pierced her heart and lungs through their duvet with a kitchen knife.
Dale, who had cut the phone lines, then left the house in a taxi, carrying a suitcase containing a bundle of designer clothes and his grandparents' HDTV, according to prosecutors. He later swapped the television for five grams of party drug mephedrone - also known as 'meow meow'.
He was arrested by armed police later that day, at which point he only had two grams of the drug left.
Dale denies murdering his grandmother and attempting to murder his grandfather.
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