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Tristan Kirk

BIZARRE: Killer detained indefinitely for stabbing pensioner on mobility scooter while in hunger games delusion | Mind Blowing Facts

A mentally ill man who stabbed to death an elderly mobility scooter rider while gripped by a delusion that he was a Hunger Games contestant will be detained indefinitely in hospital.

Lee Byer, 46, had been free from prison for just five days when he launched into a savage and unprovoked knife attack on 87-year-old Thomas O’Halloran, stabbing him twice through the heart.

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