Hammer killer gets 28 years for acting out a gothic fantasy

A killer who battered a man to death in a cemetery with a claw hammer after fanaticising about the attack and chosing a ‘creepy gothic setting’ to carry it out has been jailed for at least 28 years. Erik Feld, 37, struck 51-year-old Sri Lankan Ranjith Kankanamalage twelve times and left him looking like he had been shot in the head. Feld deliberately chose a ‘gothic and monochromatic setting’ to murder his victim – east London’s Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park,…