A SCHIZOPHRENIC rap music fan has been found guilty of killing his father.

Daniel Gobern was outraged when bailiffs arrived at his home in Downham Way, Downham, trying to collect money for unpaid parking and speeding fines.

This was because Gobern's father Freddie Reid had registered his car in his son's name.

Gobern visited the 47-year-old at his home in East Ham, east London, and a row broke out.

Electrician Mr Reid was found dead in his garden with 37 stab wounds and Gobern went to a nearby doctor's surgery with blood on his hands.

During the trial at the Old Bailey, prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw told the jury: "The victim was subjected to a ferocious and prolonged attack in which he suffered almost 40 separate injuries from a knife wielded by his son."

The court heard 22-year-old Gobern had been taken to a mental health centre by an aunt three weeks earlier.

She had become concerned about his behaviour, caused by an addiction to a strong type of cannabis called skunk.

Mr Laidlaw said Gobern had been smoking cannabis for six years and had become addicted to it.

Gobern told doctors everything else in his life came second to his addiction.

The student talked of seeing ghosts and getting messages through CDs and DVDs.

He also believed dead rap star Tupac Shakur was his real father and talked to him through his music.

Gobern also believed the Eminem film 8 Mile was about him and his "father" was in the film.

Mr Laidlaw added doctors said Gobern had developed schizophrenia "made much worse by evidence of heavy consumption of skunk".

He said: "He was angry his father, having put the car into his name, failed to take responsibility for fines he had accumulated."

A social worker had made another appointment for Gobern to go to the mental health centre eight days before the killing on May 12 last year but he failed to turn up.

In videotaped interviews which were shown to the jury, Gobern confessed to the stabbing but claimed he acted in self-defence.

On December 20, Gobern was cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

He was remanded in custody for reports.

Gobern will be sentenced at Luton Crown Court on February 16 next year.