New York: Man stabs mother, dismembers body for calling him bad father'

New York: A 26-year-old man, identified as Bahsid Mclean, is facing trial for murdering and dismembering his 52-year-old mother, Tanya Byrd in their Morrisania apartment.

On February 26, 2013, Mclean allegedly stabbed her in the neck, after she told him that he was a bad father.

Police said that he called them to report his dead mom missing after committing the crime.

After killing his mother, Mclean went to a hardware store and bought a power saw to carve up her body, police said.

Before dumping the bags with dismembered body parts in the dustbins he stopped to take a selfie in which he can be seen smirking with Tanya’s dismembered head. The police later discovered the selfie on McLean’s phone.

However, his defense lawyer told a court that Bahsid was mentally ill at the time he committed the crime and could not distinguish right from wrong.

The defense team is arguing that he is a ‘broken’ man and has had voices in his head since he was a child. He had also received treatment in mental hospitals.

Lynn Calvacca, Bahsid’s lawyer, held up the picture to the court, arguing the claims that he is mentally unstable and said, “Does this look like someone who knows what he is doing is wrong?”

Tanya’s dismembered dead body was found in the bin bags in the neighbourhood in four suitcases.