Dixon: God told me behead women 

There have been bizarre revelations from the accused at the so called 'samurai sword' murder retrial in Auckland.

Antonie Dixon told the Auckland High Court that he heard the voice of God before a violent spree that left a man dead and two women with horrific injuries.

Dixon is charged with seriously injuring Renee Gunbie and Simone Butler and murdering James Te Aute in January 2003. On Monday, Dixon said he shot Mr Te Aute because he could see horns coming out of his head.

Taking the stand to describe why he hacked the women with a samurai sword, he said, "They wouldn't get on their hands and knees. They were meant to get on their hands and knees and I was meant to chop their hands off into the basket, the laundry basket was emptied upstairs and I put th laundry basket onto the floor."

Dixon said he believed a group called the New World Order was watching him and police were conspiring against him.

"There was definitely aircrafts following me, this whole thing's been a cover up," he says.

On the night of his rampage he said God appeared to him at the Thames warehouse he shared with the two women.

"I went outside and spoke to God and he said they were Judas's, to behead them, and to turn the sword and kill myself."

But as he hacked at the women, the sword broke.

"I realised I couldn't do it with the tip of the sword gone, I couldn't, so I took that as a symbolic symbol that it wasn't meant to be," he said.

Dixon told the jury details of a horrific childhood, which he says included being chained to a post and beaten once a week, and being sexually abused by 20 different people on a regular basis.

He also said that he could telepathically communicate with his mother, and that he was told by her that he had inherited a demon from his father

His sister will give evidence next week, and is expected to back up his abuse claims.