Convicted killer tried to murder shopkeeper

A convicted killer tried to murder a shopkeeper after refusing to take his medication in the months before the attack, a court heard. Schizophrenic Leon Scott, 41, armed himself with two knives before heading to his local store, Ley Street Food and Wines in Ilford, east London last November. Scott had been a regular at the store for four years when he tried to kill shopkeeper Dhines Thangavelu. David Burgess, a recruitment consultant who had known Mr Thangavelu from their…