The court was told that in the three days before the stabbings, Safi had attended an appointment at his GP, had a mental health assessment at Hillingdon Hospital and had sought help at Hayes police station.<\/p>\n
After the stabbings, doctors concluded Safi was suffering from psychotic depression which had led to the violent offences.<\/p>\n
Dr Elliott Carthy, who assessed Safi at Broadmoor, said he had “paranoid and persecutory beliefs”, and voices in his head contributed to his actions that day.<\/p>\n
He said a hospital order with restrictions was the best way to protect the public “going forward now and in anticipation of his release into the community”.<\/p>\n
He said Safi was likely to spend at least five years at Broadmoor before being considered for transfer to a medium security facility where he would stay for several more years, and if he is released into the community he would be under strict conditions and subject to lifelong monitoring.<\/p>\n
Safi, who admitted manslaughter, was found guilty by a jury of attempting to murder Farrukh and pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm to the teenage boy, as well as possession of the knife.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors dropped a charge of murder after the guilty plea to manslaughter was entered, and after receiving expert reports on Safi’s mental health.<\/p>\n
The judge told the court she would have sentenced Safi to life in prison with a minimum term of eight years if he had not been mentally unwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The court was told that in the three days before the stabbings, Safi had attended an appointment at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-792846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}