Hammer attacker ruined his mental health smoking cannabis

A cannabis addict tried to murder a finance worker and her mother in the street with a hammer after destroying his mental health by smoking skunk weed from the age of 12, a court heard. Joe Xuereb, 28, picked Anna Gos, 31, and her mum, Marianna Hoelinak, 65, for the horror attack in New Eltham, southeast London, because he wrongly believed they were threatening his family. He battered both women to the ground and returned to attack them again as…