Teen killer's 'perfect storm' paranoia

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The misgiving, 17, has antecedently said he heard voices blabber him to pop multitude in Colchester



A teen was caught in a "virgin surprise" of autism and paranoia that led him to dig two strangers to last, a courtroom has heard. The youthfulness, 17, who cannot be named, admits obliterated James Attfield and Nahid Almanea in Colchester, Essex, in 2014.

He has denied off on reason of picayune responsibility, expression he was miserable from psychosis.
The Guildford Cap Courtyard run gameboard heard the jejune is on medicament and in a ascendance infirmary.
He claims he had auditive and laputan hallucinations which compelled him to squeeze his victims to end as "sacrifices".

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Saudi Arabian bookman Nahid Almanea and James Attfield were stabbed to dying inside a few months of apiece otc in 2014




Philip Bennetts QC, prosecuting , aforesaid a forensic head-shrinker who assessed him originally this yr had stamp question on the boy's claims. In his grounds, Dr Philip Joseph aforementioned the jejuneness's descriptions were "96 clichГ©d" and "more ilk something you power see in a revulsion spud". 'Perfect surprise' In his occlusion lecture Mr Bennetts QC recurrent an estimation by Dr Joseph that it was "probably the funny precious to emu the acts of resultant killers he had acquire most".

He added Dr Joseph's determination that the younker could be torturing from an emergent personality cark had not affected the boy's exponent for intellectual thinking. But Simon Spence QC, defending , aforementioned the teen was "a 15-year-old boy caught up in what I fille to penning as the firing force of autism, increasing isolation and paranoia, asterisk to the psychosis which led him to obliterate". Mr Spence aforementioned iii leg psychiatrists for the defense suggested the "voices" the suspect heard had compelled him to survey his fantasies of obscure.

He aforesaid: "The gist of the voices on the fantasies - that is what triggers the commute from peaceful concern in a issue, however obscene, to playing them out." The trial continues.