A vampire mugger stabbed a pensioner ten times to

A vampire mugger stabbed a pensioner ten times to steal his blood, a court heard today.

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Brian Kalule, 18, leapt on 70-year-old retired accountant Gordhanbai Patel as he was walking home late one evening.

Kalule thrust a kitchen knife with a five-inch blade up to ten times in Mr Patel’s head.

As Mr Patel lay on the pavement of Redcar Street, Camberwell, south London, a horrified passer-by saw jobless Kalule lick his victim’s blood off his own hand.

Kalule later told psychiatrists: ‘I needed to drink some blood.

I was looking for a pigeon.

I didn’t find one.

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The court heard that Mr Patel would have died if Kalule’s blade not snapped.

Mr Patel told police: ‘I really thought this was my last moment.

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He has been left with several deep wounds in his head, one of which required 12 stitches.

Questioned by police if he wanted to steal something from Mr Patel on 14 November last year, Kalule replied: ‘Yes.

I wanted his blood.

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He also told police that he had stabbed people before ‘in heaven.

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Kalule admitted malicious wounding and the judge Mr
Recorder David Moore ordered him to be locked away in secure metal hospital indefinitely

‘By the grace of God alone a fatality was not involved,’ the judge said,

‘Mr Patel was returning home and went past you and noticed you were holding a kitchen knife with a five inch long blade.

‘As he went past you he felt a sharp pain and that appeared to be the knife being pushed into the back of his head.

‘He went to the floor and then saw you holding the knife over his head and it was pointing vertically down.

‘And you repeatedly lunged that knife in his face and he was hit about the face and body as well.

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The judge said: ‘You were subsequently arrested and you were seen to be licking Mr Patel’s blood from your right hand.

‘You were arrested and it was quite clear that there were very significant problems with regard to your mental health.

The judge said he took into account Kalule’s previous convictions included hurling boiling water in a girl’s face in her home, and robbery.

In the light of reports by three psychiatrists, the judge made a hospital order under sections 37 and 41 of the Mental Health Act.

‘I’m satisfied you present a risk to the community as well as yourself,’ the judge said.

Kalule had no previous history of mental disorder, a legal source said after the case.

He added that Kalule’s mental health is thought to have broken down immediately before the incident.

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