A SCHIZOPHRENIC WHO PUSHED A PENSIONER IN FRONT OF

A SCHIZOPHRENIC WHO PUSHED A PENSIONER IN FRONT OF A BUS AND
SET FIRE TO HIS HOUSE WILL BE DETAINED IN HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT.

AN OLD BAILEY JUDGE DECIDED ON FRIDAY THAT THE LEYTON MAN WAS
‘A DANGER TO THE PUBLIC’ AND NEEDED HELP.

BURKE GEORGE (CORRECT), 23, HAD EARLIER PLEADED GUILTY TO
ARSON, AFTER A DAY OF CRAZED ACTIVITY ON NOVEMBER 4 LAST YEAR.

AFTER A FURIOUS ROW WITH HIS MOTHER AT A BUS-STOP, GEORGE
PUSHED A 66-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, A COMPLETE STRANGER, STRAIGHT INTO THE
PATH OF A BUS.

LUCKILY THE DRIVER MANAGED TO SLAM ON HIS BRAKES AND STOP
BEFORE HE HIT HER.

GEORGE’S HORRIFED MOTHER, WHOM HE HAD FOLLOWED TO THE BUS STOP
IN LEA BRIDGE ROAD, LEYTON, WITNESSED HER SON’S CALLOUS ACT.

WITHOUT STOPPING TO SEE IF THE TERRIFIED OLD LADY WAS ALRIGHT,
GEORGE RAN BACK TO HIS HOME IN MANOR ROAD, LEYTON, SAID PROSECUTOR
ANTHONY FALK.

IN A RAGE GEORGE POURED COOKING OIL OVER THE STAIRS, PLACED
THREE TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES ON THEM, THEN SET FIRE TO THE LOT.

HIS BROTHER MARTIN, WHO WAS IN BED AT THE TIME, AWOKE TO FIND
THE HOUSE FULL OF SMOKE.

HE CLIMBED OUT OF HIS BEDROOM WINDOW AND RAN TO HIS
NEIGHBOUR’S TO RING THE FIRE BRIGADE.

MEANWHILE GEORGE ‘SAUNTERED OFF’ TO KEEP AN APPOINTMENT WITH
THE PROBATION OFFICER, SAID MR FALK.

IN AN INTERVIEW WITH POLICE GEORGE CLAIMED: ‘WOMEN
DELIBERATLEY BUMP INTO ME ALL THE TIME TO ANNOY ME.

‘
GEORGE PLEADED GUILTY TO ARSON, BUT THE PENSIONER REFUSED TO
PRESS CHARGES.

JUDGE ROBERT LYMBERY, QC, COMMITTED THE MENTALLY ILL MAN TO
CLAYBURY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD.

DOCTOR LEONARD FAGIN, WHO IS TREATING GEORGE, TOLD THE COURT
THAT HE DOES SUFFER FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA.

ENDS.

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