Son killed his diplomat father after fees row

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Architecture student Beza Mbeboh, 29, denied murder at the Old Bailey but pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

He is being examined by psychiatrists and is expected to be sent to a secure mental hospital when sentenced.

His father, Kitts Mbeboh, 60, a cultural attaché for the Cameroon High Commission in Holland Park, was found dead in Greenford last August. He lived with his four sons, all in their twenties.

His accused son had studied for two years at the London School of Architecture. It is understood there had been tensions over the cost of his college fees.

At first the police encountered problems over diplomatic immunity but these were soon resolved after discussions with the Cameroon High Commission.

Det Sgt Eamonn Halliday, of the Homicide and Serious Crime unit, said: "The relationship between Beza and his father had been deteriorating over his education. This was a high-achieving family and there must have been the pressure of expectation.

"The father was a Christian man with high values. It appears to have been an aberration in a tight-knit family."

Judge Gerald Gordon adjourned proceedings until next month.