Elderly schizophrenic ‘charged at nurse with makeshift bayonet’

A paranoid schizophrenic charged at his nurse with a broom handle fashioned into a bayonet after she reported him for swearing at her. Henry Pluck, 77, was living in sheltered accommodation when he threatened to kill Valda Trowers and gauge her eyes out at Lewis Silkin House in New Cross, southeast London. Armed with a 12-inch knife latched onto a broom handle Pluck told the nurse: ‘I am 76 years old, and I don’t give a f**k. I have had…