The nightmare night of George Harrison

December 30, 1999 George Harrison if he saw it ugly. Really bad. The former beatle was, together with his wife Olivia, in his Dutch Park estate – immortalized on the cover of his 1970 album “All Things Must Pass” – When, around half past four in the night, a person penetrated Harrison who, showy discovered, reacted by stabbing George, with four stabbed, while his wife brought a head injury. The Harrison were hospitalized and, fortunately, they were not in danger of life. In the scuffle, the attacker reported a cranial lesion, caused by a blow in the head inflicted by Olivia Harrison with an abstat-jour. The arrival of the police, called by the Harrison, allowed the arrest of the criminal.

It was later discovered that the man, a 33 -year -old from Liverpool named Michael Abram He had murderous intentions. In fact, he had introduced himself to the villa, breaking through the glass of a window, armed with a twenty centimeter knife to kill the guitarist. Abram’s mother said that her son, already suffering from mental problems, had developed an obsession with Beatlesafter cultivating a similar one for Oasis.

Friar Park, the estate in which Harrison lives, is located in Henley, in the English Oxfordshire campaign. This is what the British media call a “gothic folly”, a grandiose mansion commissioned in 1896 by the Victorian eccentric Sir Frank Crispknown for its gigantic collection of garden dwarfs. Located in thirty acres of gardens, the house has 120 more varied towers and turret rooms. Harrison bought it in 1971, shortly after the dissolution of the Beatlesfor 200,000 pounds of the time; Until recently, Friar Park had hosted a nun convent. The guitarist spent millions of pounds to bring it back to the splendor of Sir Crispo times, making the underground passages restore, the ponds, the waterfalls and even the caves that housed the dwarves. Harrison was and is so in love with Friar Park who dedicated a song to her, “The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp “included in the album “All Things Must Pass”.

Months later George Harrison he told the court the dynamics of the aggression suffered on 30 December 1999 by Michael Abram. After listening to Abram’s story, he said that at the time he felt “owned” by the former beatle and had decided to kill him to get rid of, the Oxford Crown Court gave the floor to the guitarist and his wife Olivia, who described the details of a hallucinating night. After hearing the noise of broken glass, Harrison got out of bed, went downstairs and saw a statue made of pieces: “Then I saw a person running towards me with a knife and a bar, and stop in the middle of the room, shouting something like: ‘put you on their knees, you know what awaits you’. I thought of shouting too, to distract him and confuse it. Krishna, Hare Krishna ‘, then I ran upstairs, but at a certain point I saw myself blocked, so I decided to attack him to defend my wife and the mother -in -law. Me and stabbed me, and I defended myself with my hands. As he tried to strangle it with an electric wire, he managed to hit him with a lamp. He fell, I arrived and I managed to remove the knife from his hands. But he grabbed the lamp and managed to hit me in the head, and we started fighting again. Then I heard rumors: it was the police ”.

Michael Abramthe bomber of George Harrison And of his wife Olivia, he was finally judged to be infirm of his mind. In writing he wanted to express his apologies to the victims of his aggression: “I write this letter in the hope that it will be delivered to the Lord and to Mrs. Harrison. I would like to tell you how sorry I am for the fright, the pain and damage that I caused them when I was sick. Before the aggression I saw so many doctors but they never told me that I suffered from schizophrenia and mental disorders. They were real and that everything I tried was a kind of witchcraft.