‘Let out of a psychiatric ward to kill’

A mentally ill killer beat an 87-year-old grandfather to death with his own walking stick eight months after he was discharged into the community, a judge said today. Sekai Miles, 23, had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia before he killed Bernard Fowler at Harold Wood station in east London. Miles’ illness was exacerbated by his use of cannabis but three months before the killing a doctor said he was looking ‘the best he had seen him’, the Old Bailey heard….