Hospital gardener gets 30 years for trying to murder two colleagues

A hospital maintenance worker who tried to murder two colleagues with a pickaxe and a scalpel has been jailed for 30 years. Matteo Bottarelli, 44, told one of his fellow workers ‘this is your lucky day’ moments before he went berserk, sending the Central Middlesex Hospital into lockdown on 21 June 2023. Bottarelli savagely beat Trevor McGuire over the head with a mattock, or small pickaxe and stabbed Gideon Tesfay in the neck with a scalpel. He also tried to…