Cricket bat killer locked up on secure ward

A mentally ill son who clubbed his mother to death with a cricket bat will be held indefinitely in a secure psychiatric ward after a jury found he carried out the act. Shanil Patel, 32, struck 62-year-old Hansa Patel ‘repeatedly and forcefully’ around the head at their home in Greenford, west London, on 25 November last year. Police arrested him the following day and he was interviewed at Ealing police station. Patel is too unwell to take part in own…