NSW man not guilty of murdering father A MAN who stabbed his father to death on Christmas Eve was seen howling like a werewolf just hours before the attack, a NSW court has been told. Rodney Pitt pleaded not guilty to murdering his father Leslie James Pitt on December 24, 2011 at his Walgett home in northern NSW by reason of mental illness. The NSW Supreme Court heard that on the afternoon of the stabbing Aboriginal Cultural Liaison Officer Isaac Gordon told local police that Leslie suspected Rodney, who suffered schizophrenia, was not taking his medication. Soon after, Justice Price said, Mr Gordon had seen Rodney raising his "head to the sky and howling like an animal or werewolf." That same day Leslie was found in his house with a large cut to the back of his head. He died in Walgett Hospital later that night. In handing down his judgment this week, Justice Derek Price found that while Rodney deliberately stabbed his father multiple times with a white-handled boning knife, he was not guilty of murder by reason he was suffering chronic paranoid schizophrenia. In a report from September last year, psychiatrist Dr Bruce Westmore said Rodney had described how, on the day of the stabbing, he had heard "strange voices" and came to believe his father had molested either other children or himself when he was young. Rodney told Dr Westmore that he heard voices as he went into his father's room telling him to "do it, do it." Rodney did not remember anything after stabbing his father for the first time. Justice Price ordered Rodney be detained in the forensic hospital at Long Bay Correctional Centre.